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In the last 24 hours, militants have fired on the positions of the Ukrainian army with large-caliber artillery, grenade launchers and drones, the army said in a statement.
Most of the attacks took place Donetsk in the region.
Since the beginning of the year in Eastern Ukraine has already fallen 52 Ukrainian soldiers, compared to 50 in the whole of last year.
Ukraine since belonging to it Crimea The annexation of the peninsula in 2014 is in a de facto state of war with Russia.
In addition Russia after the capture of Crimea, also invaded the territory of mainland Ukraine. At this moment Moscow armed and funded militant gangs control large areas of Donbass in eastern Ukraine.
After a more peaceful period, warfare escalated again earlier this year, and in April Russia mobilized an army of 100,000 men at the Ukrainian border and in Crimea, raising concerns about a resumption of full-scale hostilities.
However, Moscow claimed that units concentrated at the border were participating in military exercises and that this was a response to NATO maneuvers.
Although Moscow later announced the withdrawal of its troops to its usual areas of deployment, Washington and Kiev say part of Russia’s troops have remained on Ukraine’s borders.
In addition, the Kremlin recently published a historical reflection “written” by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which many experts translate as an actual application of territorial claims to Ukraine.
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