UNIAN: Ukraine reports one soldier killed, four wounded in Donbas in past day

By UNIAN.

Published June 25, 2018 at 11:39 am

A Ukrainian serviceman fires his gun in the direction of Russia-backed separatists during night combat near the village Zaytseve not far from the the Gorlivka town late on June 20, 2018. More than 10,000 people have been killed in a simmering conflict between Ukrainian army and Russian-backed rebels in the country's east since the insurgency broke out in April 2014. / AFP PHOTO / Anatolii STEPANOV

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Russia-led forces mounted 22 attacks on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas in the past 24 hours, with one Ukrainian soldier reported as killed in action (KIA) and another four as wounded in action (WIA).

“The situation in the zone of the Joint Forces Operation on June 24 remained under control. In the afternoon, Russian-backed separatists intensified fire from large-caliber weapons, prohibited by the Minsk agreements,” the press center of Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation said in an update on Facebook as of 07:00 a.m. Kyiv time on June 25, 2018.