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One Ukrainian soldier killed, one wounded in Donbass over past day 02/16/2018 16:39:55. Total views 799. Views today — 0.

Russia's hybrid military forces mounted ten attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbass in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action and another one as wounded in action. This is reported by the ATO Headquarters press center.

Illegal armed groups intensively used the weapons banned by the Minsk agreements - large-caliber artillery systems and heavy mortars.

In Luhansk direction, illegal armed formations fired 82mm mortars, heavy machine guns and weapons on infantry combat vehicles near Luhanske.

In the Donetsk direction, the epicenter of fire tension was the Mariupol sector.

Militants used 122mm artillery and 120mm mortars, grenade launchers, small arms and weapons on infantry combat vehicles to launch attacks outside Vodiane. In addition, Ukrainian troops came under heavy machine gun fire near Pavlopol, Chermalyk and Shyrokine. Russian mercenaries also used 82mm mortars and grenade launchers to fire at Ukrainian positions near Taramchuk and Butovka coal mine.