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Ceasefire violated in eastern Ukraine, two soldiers died

06 April 2021 11:42 (UTC +04:00)

Two soldiers of the Ukrainian army have died in a ceasefire violation in eastern Ukraine, APA reports citing Ukrinform.

Separatists violated the ceasefire 7 times using anti-tank grenades, submachine guns, and machine guns.

In the area of responsibility of the operational and tactical group ‘East’, the separatist fired small arms, heavy machine guns, hand-held antitank grenade launchers on Ukrainian positions near Avdiivka (17km north of Donetsk), Lebedynske (16km east of Mariupol), and Vodiane in the Sea of Azov area. In the area of responsibility of the operational and tactical group “North”, Ukrainian troops came under different grenade launcher and heavy machine gun fire outside Zolote-4 (59km west of Luhansk); small arms fire – in the area of Novooleksandrivka (65km west of Luhansk).

As the result, two soldiers of the Ukrainian Army died.