Ukraine's military spokesman said one Ukrainian serviceman had been killed and two others received dangerous wounds during an alleged militants attack in the area of the village of Shyrokyne, Donetsk region, in the morning of April 25.
“Yesterday the enemy on eight occasions opened mortar and small-arms
fire on Ukrainian positions in the vicinity of Shyrokyne. Yesterday none
of our personnel was hurt. At 6:25 hours today the enemy went over to
D-30 122-millimeter guns. These are banned by the Minsk agreements…
Around 7:00 hours a member of the Donbas Battalion of the National
Guard, a 42-year-old man from Kyiv, was killed. Another two members of
the Donbas Battalion are at one of the hospitals in Mariupol in severe
condition,” Dmytro Horbunov, spokesman for the Ukrainian army’s Sector
M, told Interfax.
He said the wounded servicemen’s commanders were going to send them to a Defense Ministry hospital.
Horbunov also said ceasefires had been established on several
occasions in the Shyrokyne area at the proposal of militants but that
the latter had themselves violated them.
“This week alone, the enemy on 12 occasions proposed a ceasefire and
used that time to evacuate their wounded, redeploy, replenish their
arsenals. Then they themselves would open fire. Those are banned methods
of warfare, methods that our forces would never have used,” the
spokesman said.
