[newline] How to write one new line in Bitbucket markdown?

Is it possible to write a new line (NOT a paragraph) in the Bitbucket markdown?

Two new lines in the source creates one new paragraph. I only want a new line. And I don't want to use a code block.

It's now possible to add a forced line break
with two blank spaces at the end of the line:

line1??
line2

will be formatted as:

line1
line2

On Github, <p> and <br/>solves the problem.

<p>I want to this to appear in a new line. Introduces extra line above

or

<br/> another way

I was facing the same issue in bitbucket, and this worked for me:

line1
##<2 white spaces><enter>
line2

Feb 3rd 2020:

• Atlassian Bitbucket v5.8.3 local installation.
• I wanted to add a new line around an horizontal line. --- did produce the line, but I could not get new lines to work with suggestions above.
• note: I did not want to use the [space][space] suggestion, since my editor removes trailing spaces on save, and I like this feature on.

I ended up doing this:

TEXT...
<br><hr><br>
TEXT...

Resulting in:

TEXT...
<AN EMPTY LINE>
----------------- AN HORIZONTAL LINE ----------------
<AN EMPTY LINE>
TEXT...