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Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 62 times in the past 24 hours with four Ukrainian soldiers reported as wounded in action (WIA), according to the press service of the Ukrainian military headquarters.

Russia-backed separatists in the Mariupol sector used 120mm and 82mm mortars to shell the towns of Krasnohorivka and Maryinka, while rocket-propelled grenades and small arms were used to attack Maryinka, and the villages of Pavlopil, Hnutove, Hranitne, Vodiane, Novohryhorivka, Shyrokyne, and Talakivka.

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