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2021-02-21 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Both sides suffer losses in artillery fire in Donetsk

Separatists in southeastern Ukraine claimed Ukrainian armed forces have lost as many as 11 dead in an exchange of artillery fire Saturday, according to Russian language news accounts.

According to a Russian language report which appeared in reserve Colonel Igor Girkin's VKontakte page, separatists returned Ukrainian artillery fire which was aimed at Gorlovka.

A separate report which was featured in Russian Spring web page quoted an official with the Donetsk People's Republic, saying that the artillery fire came from the positions of Ukrainian 35th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade.

The report said that as many as 11 Ukrainian dead were reported, but other reports say that the Ukrainians suffered 11 casualties total, dead and wounded, in the return fire.

Reports mention Gargarin and Yuzhnaya mines, and Novogorod as locations where separatist artillery hit.

Separatists claim one dead and two wounded in the Gorlovka area.

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