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First Deputy Health Minister of Ukraine Ruslan Saliutin reported that sixteen Ukrainian servicemen were killed in a fight near the town of Volnovakha near Donetsk on Thursday.

“Unfortunately, 16 our servicemen were killed. These are the recent
reports over [a number of] killed military men,” he said during a
telephone broadcast at Channel Five on Thursday.