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Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and another one has been injured in the area of Kyiv's army operation in Donbas in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian presidential administration spokesman for military issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk has said.

“To our great regret, three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and another one has been injured as a result of fighting,” he told a press briefing in Kyiv on June 19.

One of the servicemen suffered lethal injuries when militant forces shelled positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the urban-type settlement of Talakivka in Donetsk region, he said.

Another two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and one was injured when they stepped on a mine planted by the militants near the village of Luhanske in Bakhmutka district of Donetsk region.