Ukraine Day 1255: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action and another was injured after stepping on a mine.
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Screen grab from video on Ukrainian army by People’s Project.
The ATO [Anti-Terrorist Organization] reported in its evening dispatch that one Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action near Avdeyevka.
It seems that after a week of heavy losses, as we reported, despite the “harvest cease-fire” negotiated June 24, Ukrainian soldiers are returning fire more when attacked by Russia-backed forces.
On the Mariupol line, militants attacked Krasnogorobka with a mortar-launcher and tank; they also fired on Shirokino and a sniper was active there.
OSCE monitors have found Grad missiles in territory controlled by Russia-backed separatists, Liga.net reported.
In its July 26 report for July 25, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission wrote:
In violation of withdrawal lines, in a non-government-controlled area, on 23 July aerial imagery revealed the presence of two multiple launch rocket systems (BM-21 Grad, 122mm) in Kalmiuske (formerly Komsomolske, 42km south-east of Donetsk), in a zone within which deployment of heavy armaments and military equipment is proscribed according to Point 5 of the Memorandum of 19 September 2014.
OSCE also reported on the movements of heavy armor in Ukrainian-controlled territory as well.
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick
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