Three Ukrainian troops killed in rebel east

12 Dec, 2016

Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and two wounded in the country's rebel east, the bloodiest day for government forces in more than a month, Kiev said Sunday. "Over the past 24 hours three Ukrainian soldiers were killed in combat," military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk told journalists.
"It happened as a result of an enemy mortar attack near Krasnogorivka," some 20 kilometres west of the de facto rebel capital Donetsk, he said, noting a "sharp increase" in shooting by the pro-Russian rebels.
Nearly 10,000 people have died since Ukraine's mostly Russian-speaking eastern industrial regions revolted against Kiev's pro-Western government in April 2014.

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