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More than 2,500 Ukrainian servicemen have died over the past two years of the war in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at the military parade dedicated to the 25thanniversary of Ukraine's Independence in Kyiv on August 24."Looking back at more than two years of war, we can definitely say that the enemy has failed to accomplish any of its strategic tasks, the enemy was not able and to bring Ukraine to its knees. 2,504 our soldiers have died for that," Poroshenko said.

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