Press ATU Staff reports: the end of the last day of the 18 hours until midnight and illegal armed groups continued the escalation of the conflict in the area ATO.The most tense evening continued in the area of Mariupol. About 21 hours of 122-millimeter artillery shelled our position occupants in Novohryhorivtsi and twice in Starohnativtsi. In addition, the Ukrainian strongholds in Starohnativtsi worked 120 enemy mortar fire.
Nearby Donetsk almost 22 hours to the north insurgents mortars caliber 82 and 120 mm, small arms beaten on the questionnaire. And at 22.40 again, not hiding the presence of rocket launchers near the boundary line, in our units in the same locality occupants fired from the "city".
Also, about half past nine in the evening and almost at midnight on the part of the Donetsk airport 122-millimeter artillery to beat the enemy Avdeevki residential neighborhoods where there are no forces ATO.In Luhansk end of the day under mortar fire departments criminals found themselves Ukrainian settlements in areas of Old Aydar, Trohizbenka, Stanitsa Lugansk.Overall during the last day - 27 August - illegal armed formations 109 times violated the ceasefire. 15 times invaders used guns, 34 - mortars 1 - multiple rocket launcher BM-21 "Grad".
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In Berdichev in the territory of 26 Artillery Brigade opened a monument to soldiers who died during the counterterrorist operation.
On the monument engraved with the names of the victims Artillery Brigade and 12 separate infantry battalion Oleksandr Martynyuk, Vladimir Kotvytska Victor Vereshchak Alexander Pavlyuk, Peter Dubyk, Roman Shcherbatyuk Yuri Zhabenko Alexander Sokorchuk, Alex Bogush, Basil Malyanivskyy Oleg Yandyuk John Wolf Vladimir and Aleksey Oshchepkov Cheslavskyy Alexander Szyszko, Oleg Voitenko, Dmitri Borovik Oleg Dyachenko Yuriy Artyukh, Zadoyanchuk Oleg, Oleg Vasyuk, Kryzhak Vitaly Vitaly Polonsky.
During the meeting the Order "For courage third degree" (posthumous) were awarded Basil Malyanivskoho soldier. The award was received by his son Denis, who only two years.
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Five Ukrainian soldiers wounded in ATO area over past 24 hours| Ukrinform
KYIV, August 28 /Ukrinform/. No Ukrainian servicemen were killed, five were wounded in the ATO area over past 24 hours.
Spokesman for the Presidential Administration on the anti-terrorist operation, Colonel Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing in Kyiv, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"No Ukrainian servicemen were killed as a result of active hostilities over past 24 hours," Lysenko said.
According to him, five Ukrainian soldiers were wounded near the Donetsk Airport over past day.
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Russian proxies' losses in "M" sector: 51 wounded, ammunition destroyed : UNIAN news
The details of a fierce fighting between the Ukrainian troops and the Russian-backed militants in the Mariupol "M" sector in the early hours of August 27 have been revealed today thanks to intelligence reports, press officer of the "M" sector Yaroslav Chepurniy said on Friday, according to Mariupol's city online news portal 0629.
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"It has become known that six Ukrainian soldiers were killed that night, while another two were wounded. The Ukrainian side gave an adequate answer that night and destroyed an [enemy] ammunition depot in the village of Styla (about 80 tonnes), as well as four cars,"
Chepurniy said.
According to intelligence reports that have appeared this morning, 51 wounded militants were brought to the town of Novoazovsk, while eight of them were in a very serious condition. Five officers arrived in cash transit vans.
The death toll is unknown as the bodies were immediately sent onto the territory of the Russian Federation.
An ammunition depot was also blown up in the village of Petrivske. In addition, the Ukrainian armed forces destroyed military equipment, including 51 armored engineering vehicles and three cars, near the village of Telmanove.
There was a panic among the militants and they left their positions.
Reuters / Thursday, August 27, 2015
Ukrainian servicemen pass under a booby trap as they patrol an area near the village of Popasna, Lugansk region, Ukraine, August 27, 2015. REUTERS/Maksim Levin