Commander of the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) Lieutenant-General Serhiy Nayev has held a working meeting with the U.S. delegation led by the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch as part of their visit to the JFO area.
“The United States of America is a reliable ally and a consistent partner of Ukraine in resisting Russian aggression,” Nayev said at the meeting, the JFO reported on Facebook on Tuesday.
He voiced a number of figures: for example, since the beginning of the operation [end of April 2018], 58 attacks on settlements and one shelling of a site were recorded, as a result of which five civilians were killed and 10 injured.
According to Nayev, over the past month, the number of civilians killed or injured as a result of the operation of explosive devices on the territory outside Ukraine’s control has increased – five civilians were killed by enemy mines, three of them children, another one boy was injured.
The JFO commander also informed the American delegation that since the beginning of the operation five Russian UAVs of the Orlan-10 type were destroyed (shot down).
