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3 Ukrainian KIA, 10 WIA in last day in ATO area

02/17/2017 10:30:24 am
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Three Ukrainian soldiers reported as killed in action (KIA) and ten wounded in action (WIA), according to the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.

"Militants launched 66 attacks over the past day. Unfortunately, three our soldiers were killed, ten were wounded," - the message reads:

The militants were shelling using the banned by Minsk agreements weapons.

In the Donetsk sector, they fired mortars of various calibers on the town of Avdiyivka and the villages of Kamianka, Pisky, Zaitseve, and Verkhniotoretske. In addition, Zaytsevo was shelled by a sniper, and the positions near Avdiivka - by tank.

On the Mariupol line, the militants opened fire from 120 and 82 mm mortars on the villages of Shyrokyne and Pavlopil, and rocket-propelled grenades and small arms  -- on the town of Maryinka, and the villages of Novotroyitske, Novoselivka, Vodiane, Lebedynske, Shyrokyne, Pavlopil and Hnutove. Armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles were used to attack Shyrokyne. Furthermore, enemy anti-tank missile systems shelled the village of Bohdanivka.

In Luhansk region, enemy units used 120 and 82 mm mortars to attack Krymske. Grenade launchers and small arms fire was reported in Lobachevo, Novozvanivka, Stanytsia Luhanska and Novoolexandrivka.