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The ceasefire in the Donbas conflict zone was violated 19 times on October 4, according to the press center of the Ukrainian military headquarters.

“In the Mariupol sector, the enemy broke the truce near the villages of Shyrokyne and Hnutove by firing machine-guns and small arms, while an anti-tank missile complex was used near the village of Slavne,” the press center said on its Facebook page.

In the Donetsk sector, grenades, machine-guns and small arms were fired near the town of Avdiyivka, it said.

In the Luhansk sector, the enemy fired small arms, machine-guns and grenade launchers near the villages of Novo-Oleksandrivka and Novozvanivka, and the town of Popasna, the military headquarters said. Novo-Oleksandrivka and the village of Stepne came under sniper fire. Shells of 82mm and 120mm mortars were lobbed into Novo-Oleksandrivka.