One Ukrainian servicemen killed in east Ukraine


  • World
  • Friday, 29 May 2015

KIEV (Reuters) - One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and six other have been wounded in attacks by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, a Kiev military spokesman said on Friday.

Violence has fallen off significantly in Ukraine's east since a ceasefire was brokered in the Belarussian capital of Minsk in mid-February but government forces and separatists accuse one another of violations, with almost daily casualties.

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