Two Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and another 20 have been wounded in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas in the past 24 hours, spokesman for the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine Andriy Lysenko has said.
“Two Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and another twenty have been wounded in the past 24 hours,” he told at a briefing on Saturday.
Lysenko said that two deceased military were soldiers of the Ukrainian National Guard whose battalion was ambushed near the settlement of Stanytsia Luhanska.
“The National Guard’s battalion was engaged in a fight near the bridge across the Siversky Donets river. There was an ambush there and two soldiers of the National Guard were killed and 14 were wounded in the fight. Our military managed to repel the attack and get out of this combat,” he said.
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