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Five Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donetsk fighting
 Both sides in the civil war in southeastern Ukraine have stepped up fighting, resulting in five more wounded Ukrainian soldiers on Friday, according to Russian language news reports.. According to a news account in lb.ua, one Ukrainian soldier was killed in action on Thursday. The news article reported that Russian backed militants fired mortar strikes on Ukrainian positions at Vodyaskoye, near Mariupol near the Sea of Azov. There also was a report of a rebel BMP-2 firing on Ukrainian positions at Shirokino. Near Donetsk city, rebel forces fired mortar fire on Zaitsevo, which is north of Gorlovka, and on Troitskoye and Avdievka, which is south. A separate news account in lb.ua said that work in the water filtration plant near Yasinovataya has stopped and personnel have been evacuated due to rebel fire. The plant serves both sides on the line, Ukrainian and rebel, including Avdievka and Krasnogorovka on the Ukrainian side, and in Donetsk city, Yasinovataya, Vasilevka and Spartak. According to the report a projectile hit the plant, leading to the decision to stop work. In recent days the work at the plant has stopped due to power outages caused by mortar fire. Rebels claim the plant was hit eight times with 122mm artillery, which was fired from Ukrainian occupied Avdievka and Kamenka, according to a news release from the Donetsk ministry of defense. Rebel media reported that direct fire combat took place in a number of different areas along the line of contact. Among them was along the Svetodarsk arc, which is directly north of Logvinovo, where rebel forces have parts of a rifle company dug in. Exchanges of mortars and small arms fire have been reported in Gorlovka, Spartak and at the Donetsk airport. In Novoazovskiy, which is on the coast of the Sea of Azov, mortar fire and small arms combat have been reported Posted by: badanov 2017-02-25 |
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