Ukraine reports first military casualties in 3 weeks
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Kyiv. Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the country’s war-torn east where government forces are seeking to put down a pro-Russian insurgency, the first reported casualties in nearly three weeks, Ukraine’s military said Sunday, cited by AFP
“Over the last day, as a result of clashes one Ukrainian soldier was killed and another three were wounded,” military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk told journalists.
He was killed by mortar fire on the outskirts of ,Gorlivka, some 30 kilometres (19 miles) northeast of the rebels’ de facto capital Donetsk, Motuzyanyk said.
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