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Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 44 times in the past 24 hours, including 34 in the Mariupol sector, seven barrages in the Luhansk sector, and three in the Donetsk sector, according to the press center of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

In the Mariupol sector, the enemy opened fire from 122mm artillery systems and 120mm mortars several times on the villages of Shyrokyne and Vodiane. The militants used 82mm and 120mm mortars toward the town of Maryinka, and the villages of Taramchuk, Talakivka and Lebedynske.

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