Clashes in east Ukraine kill 3 soldiers, injure 17
At least three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 17 more injured after fresh clashes broke out between Kiev’s troops and pro-Russia forces in the east of the country despite a ceasefire agreement.
"In the hostilities we lost three servicemen and 17 more were wounded,” a spokesman for the presidential administration for military operations, Andriy Lysenko, said at a briefing in Kiev on Sunday, a day after the conflicts.
He added that most of the deaths were inflicted by a mortar attack in the village of Lozove in Donetsk region.
Donetsk and Lugansk, the two mainly Russian-speaking regions, have witnessed deadly clashes between pro-Moscow forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations in April 2014 to crush pro-Russians there.
Ukraine’s warring sides reached a truce deal, known as Minsk II, at a summit attended by the leaders of Russia, France, and Germany in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk in February.
Both sides have been accusing one another of violating the ceasefire.
The agreement introduced measures such as a ceasefire, which commenced on February 15, the pullout of heavy weapons, and constitutional reform in Ukraine by the end of the year. Although the peace deal has dampened much of the fighting in Ukraine’s volatile provinces, it has failed to halt violence at key hotspots.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on May 8 that nearly 7,000 civilians have lost their lives in the year-long war in eastern Ukraine between government troops and pro-Russian forces.
He added that more than 1,000 people also remained unaccounted for and 1,657 Ukrainian troops died in the combat.
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