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The active phase of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) continues in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. The NSC News & Analysis Center Spokesman Andriy Lysenko reported at the Center's daily briefing in Kyiv on July 7, 2014, that a series of population centers were taken back from the terrorists last week in cooperative action among units from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the SBU, the Interior Ministry, the National Guard, and the State Border Service.

In compliance with a decree of the President of Ukraine to renew the active phase of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO), the personnel and units of the ATO forces began to actively disarm and destroy terrorist group in the operational zone. Ukraine's Armed Forces engaged in heavy air and artillery bombardment on strongholds, checkpoints, arms caches and clusters of terrorists, NSC Secretary Andriy Parubiy reported today at the 12:00 briefing.