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The ceasefire in Donbas has been violated 750 times by militants since the it was announced on Feb. 15, which resulted in 64 dead and 341 wounded, Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN Yuriy Serheyev has said.

“The facts mentioned today confirm that the Minsk Agreements made on Feb. 12, 2015 and Sept. 5 and 19, 2014 weren’t fully observed. Armed formations and pro-Russian groups continue their attacks on the control points of Ukrainian Armed Forces and on civilians,” Serheyev said at a sitting of UN Security Council on March 6.

“Thus, Ukrainian forces lost 64 soldiers and 341 got wounded. Only within the last few days, the terrorists shelled Ukrainian Armed Forces 58 times,” he added.