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Just another day in the "routine of the eastern front".

Mariinka hit by GRAD MLRS rockets just 10 minutes ago: https://twitter.com/xuilolala/status/614371068548149248 …

12:44 #Donetskv @Serzzze [fb] #Trudovski can hear sporadic distant volleys since morning

12:43 #Maryinka @faina_ukr Incoming Grad
12:47 Didn't hear outgoing, flew over the house, "landed by sound on bypass road"

12:59 #Alchevsk @ZonaDonbassa "They didn't carry mortars around Alchevsk for a long, now they've driven"

ATO: Militants fire artillery on Hranitne, rocket-propelled grenades on Shyrokyne
http://www.unian.info/war/1094111-at...shyrokyne.html … pic.twitter.com/B0U454ZNMB

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Ukrainian police seized 4 anti-tank grenade launchers, 20 RGD-5 grenades, ammo in Avdiivka. pic.twitter.com/HA3fukXFwP

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Ukrainian counter-intelligence seized elements for UAV production that were about to be removed to “LPR”

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SBU detained 2 militant informers who confessed they were recruited by GRU operative.

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One Ukrainian servicemen KIA, 3 wounded in the last 24 hours.

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Ukrainian border guards spotted 7 flights of enemy UAVs

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Luhansk sector: Epicentre of fighting: Shchastya, Popasna, StanytsiaLuhanska. 2 civilians injured after militant mortar attack.

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Donetsk sector: 24/7 combat actions ongoing around the airport and Maryinka. No cases of heavy arms use recorded.

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Mariupol sector: fighting continued in Shyrokyne. Militants use reactive Grad-P rocket systems; enemy snipers active.

New type of 'sea shells' on Azov sea shores this summer.
pic.twitter.com/5XdiNq93xk
Merkel: Ukraine also violates Minsk Agreement, but separatist violations are greater. #Sigh #OMW
via @Ukropo4kA

WHY does she say that---- because Germans count “shooting back” as a violation—WHEREAS the US stated self defense is not a violation.

Still does not excuse Merkel from not condemning the constant mercenary shellings and ground attacks—the key question is WHY is she so silent as Minsk 2 was her product????

Cannot believe she believes the Ukrainians should simply hide in a bunker and allow themselves to be killed and wounded??????

Core question--is in fact Merkel trying now to appease Putin--especially after the announcement by Gazprom of a new North Stream pipeline being built with apparent German approval which will bypass the Ukraine.