Dzerkalne ( uk, Дзеркальне), or Zerkalnoye (russian: Зеркальное), is a village in the Amvrosiivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast,

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

, 39.9 kilometres south-east from

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; uk, Донецьк, translit=Donets'k ; russian: Донецк ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin and Stalino (see also: cities' alternative names), is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine loca ...

. Population: 65 (2001).

2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine

During the Battle of Ilovaisk, on August 24, 2014, a column of the Russian 331st Airborne Regiment was hit by Ukrainian troops of the 51st Mechanized Brigade near Kuteinykove village. Ten armed Russian paratroopers were captured later during the night near Dzerkalne, just a mile away from where the column was destroyed. On the evening of August 25, the

Security Service of Ukraine The Security Service of Ukraine ( uk, Служба безпеки України, translit=Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy}) or SBU ( uk, СБУ, link=no) is the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian ...

(SBU) announced the capture.

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, however, said that the ten Russian soldiers, 20 kilometers from the Russian border, only entered Ukraine by mistake.Источник: задержанные на Украине военные РФ случайно пересекли границу
RIA Novosty, August 26, 2014.

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