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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that since the beginning of the Russian aggression, 2,608 Ukrainian troops were killed, 2,200 of them – from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“A total of 2,608 Ukrainian soldiers were killed during the aggression. Some 2,200 of them – from the staff of the Armed Forces,” the president said, speaking at the operational meeting of the Armed Fores of Ukraine in Kyiv on Feb. 22.