Five Ukrainian soldiers killed, 23 wounded in Donbas conflict zone

Friday, January 30, 2015 - 12:14 (EET) Section: Latest news

Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another 23 wounded over the last 24 hours due to the armed hostilities in the Donbas conflict zone.
Acting Armed Forces General Staff spokesman Vladyslav Selezniov has announced this at a press briefing on Friday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“During the shelling and clashes Ukraine has lost five soldiers, another 23 suffered injuries of various degrees of severity,” he said.
Now, all the wounded soldiers are delivered to hospitals, where medical staff is working with them.
Selezniov said that currently 390 soldiers, 11 of whom are seriously injured, are in hospitals and medical institutions.
Besides, according to him, militants shelled the positions of the ATO forces 87 times during the day.