Spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Andriy Petrenko has reported that 98 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in action in Donbas, the east of Ukraine, since the beginning of 2017, according to First Deputy Chairperson of Ukraine`s Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko.
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”When speaking at a conference in Georgia, Andriy Petrenko, a spokesman for Ukraine`s Defense Ministry [informed]: 98 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in Donbas in 2017 alone, over 800 were wounded in action. More than 1,100 instances of the violation of the ceasefire were registered,” she wrote on Facebook.
Earlier, eight soldiers were reported to have been wounded on Saturday, May 27.
Seven Ukrainian troops were wounded in action on Sunday, May 28, the press service of the Anti-Terrorist Operation headquarters said in an update on Monday morning.
See also: United Nations report: 9,733 people killed, 22,720 injured during war in Donbas
