Ukraine Day 1249: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Today was a particularly bloody day in the war in Ukraine: 9 soldiers were KIA, 5 WIA, 1 captured, and 8 injured in a training accident. One separatist fighter was killed and 3 civilians were reported wounded in Donetsk.
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Ukrainian military training ground.
Today was a particularly bloody day on the battlefield and near the front line, despite the “harvest ceasefire” declared June 24, Unian.net reported.
Five Ukrainian soldiers were killed in battle at Krasnogorovka and Novgorodskoye and 2 were wounded there; 1 was killed at Maryinka; 3 were killed from tripping a mine in Novotoshkovskoye and 3 were wounded there.
The US condemned the violence, saying it was the bloodiest day of battle this year, Business Insider reported.
Russia-backed forces stepped up their attacks today, with 20 violations of the ceasefire and a heavy battle on the Mariupol line at Krasnogorovka, Unian.net reports.
A sniper also killed a Ukrainian soldier named Sergiy Gladkiy, age 22, from the town of Strabichevo in the Mukachevsky District, of the 128th Separate Mountain Infantry Brigade, bringing the total to 4 KIA.
“Today in the ATO zone was notable for an activization of provocations on the part of the unlawful armed formations virtually all along the line of contact. Despite all agreements, the militants not only used banned weapons but tried to break the defense of the ATO forces.Starting at one in the morning until almost 8:00 am, the bandit formation from the direction of Staromikhailovka fired on our strongholds near Krasnogorovka from 122-mm artillery, 82-mm and 122-mm mortar-launchers, grenade-launchers and heavy machine guns. At about 4:00 am the enemy increased the shell-fire pincer and fired 10 rounds of Grad-P missiles from a mobile rocket launch system and also used a tank. About that time, under cover of fire, about 20 militants approached our positions. A battle broke out during which ATO soldiers used grenade-launchers and fire arms and and with capable actions forced the criminals to retreat. Unfortunately, during the battle, three of our soldiers were killed, 7 were wounded and 1 was captured.”
Militants fired on residential homes in Krasnogorovka from a tank.
Alexander Hug, the first deputy of the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission came to Trudovskiye at the Petrovsky District in western Donetsk today to conduct an inspection.
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
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