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Terrorists in Donbas are reinforcing roadblocks and mounting Grad multiple rocket launchers near settlements, while militants are posing as representatives of the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU), the NGU press office said in a statement on Wednesday.

"National Guard units do not have Grad multiple rocket launchers and their daily activities are guided by the laws of Ukraine and they do not use weapons against civilians," reads the official statement by the NGU command. The NGU is asking locals to resist the provocative actions and statements by terrorists.

Two militants' Grad rocket launchers destroyed by ATO forces

Near the village of Dmytrivka on July 9 the Ukrainian military destroyed two Grad multiple rocket launchers, belonging to militants, spokesman for the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) Vladyslav Selezniov wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday.

"At 11.55 near the village of Dmytrivka the compounded battery of 2S3 [152.4 mm self-propelled artillery system “Akatsiya” - ed.] of a mechanized brigade made an aimed artillery strike on particular rebel positions. As a result of the effective action two BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers of the militants were destroyed," he said.