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"One soldier of ours was killed and two more were injured in the hostilities over the past day. In addition, a serviceman injured earlier died at the hospital in Zaporizhia," Lysenko told at a Friday press briefing in Kyiv.

One of the servicemen was injured in the village of Semyhirya in the Bakhmutivka district of the Donetsk region, the other suffered injury and another one died in an attack on Avdiyivka, he said.

The militants opened fire in the Popasna and Stanytsia Luhanska districts, Orikhove and Triokhizbenka in the Luhansk sector, the ministry spokesman said. Seven shelling incidents, including one employing heavy weapons, were observed in that sector during the day, the spokesman said.

The militants fired 60 mortar shots on Ukrainian army positions in the Avdiyivka industrial zone in the Donetsk sector, he said, adding that every shelling incident lasted for 30 minutes. A 15-minute combat engagement was reported from Semyhirya near Svitlodarsk. In all, the Donetsk sector saw six shelling incidents, including five by use of heavy weapons, within the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.

The militants used mortars and sniper rifles near Krasnohorivka and in the Pavlopil-Shyrokyne sector in the Mariupol region. According to Ukrainian Intelligence, the Ukrainian army had to return fire. In all, 17 shelling incidents, including four involving heavy weapons, occurred in that sector.

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