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Defense ministry reports six Ukrainian soldiers injured in Donbas in past 24 hours

Published Feb. 6, 2017 at 2:42 pm

Ukrainian servicemen leave to patrol the eastern city Avdiyivka on Feb. 4. The town has been the scene of heavy fighting in recent weeks, and clashes were ongoing there just hours before a new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine was due to come into effect on Feb. 20.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Six soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were injured in the country’s east over the past 24 hours; no one was killed, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk said.

“Over the past 24 hours, as a result of hostilities, there have been no fatalities among the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces; six military servicemen have been injured,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Feb. 6.