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Russian-backed separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in Donbas 61 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press service of the Ukraine military headquarters.

In the Mariupol sector, the separatists fired 82mm mortars on the villages of Chermalyk, Vodiane and Shyrokyne, as well as rocket-propelled grenades and small arms on the town of Krasnohorivka, and the villages of Lebedynske, Talakivka, Vodiane, Shyrokyne and Hnutove. They also used infantry fighting vehicles in the village of Berezove. Additionally, a sniper was active in Shyrokyne.

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