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"Unfortunately, we got three KIA's and six WIA's in the last day," Motuzianyk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday - Interfax.

The enemy nearly doubled the number of attacks in Donbas, from 52 the day before to 96, and artillery was used day and night in every sector, Motuzianyk said. "As many as 500 mortar and 300 artillery shells were fired on our positions. We previously witnessed similar dynamics in August of last year," Motuzianyk said.

In the Luhansk sector, hostilities were observed in the Popasna district where mortars and artillery systems were used. Grenade launchers and machine-guns were fired along the Bakhmutska road, and infantry combat vehicles were engaged during the night. In all, 19 provocations were observed in that area in the past 24 hours, including four artillery attacks and three mortar attacks, he said.

In the Donetsk sector, illegal armed formations fired mortars on the Svitlodarsk bulge, Novoselivka Druha and Avdiyivka. Mortars and artillery systems were used near the demolished Donetsk airport. A total of 45 ceasefire violations were recorded in that area over the past day, including 34 involving heavy armaments.

In the Mariupol sector, the enemy opened fire throughout the frontline; 40 artillery shells whose caliber is 152mm were fired on Ukrainian army positions in the village of Hranitne within two hours, Motuzianyk said. The militants also used mortars to shell the towns of Krasnohorivka and Maryinka at night. A total of 32 armed provocations were recorded in the Mariupol sector within one day, and a third of them employed heavy weapons.

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