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UNIAN: Ukraine reports one soldier wounded amid 17 separatist attacks in Donbas

By UNIAN.

Published July 12, 2018. Updated July 12 at 9:45 am

The ruins of a former textile factory defended by Ukrainian troops, pictured on June 21. Despite having a grim reputation as one of the worst killing zones on the Donbas front line, fighting for the Promzone has died down somewhat recently.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Russia-led forces mounted 17 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as wounded in action (WIA).

“According to intelligence reports, two Russia-backed separatists were wounded,” the press center of Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation (JFO) said in an update on Facebook as of 07:00 a.m. Kyiv time on July 12, 2018.