Five Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 29 wounded in fighting against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, a Ukraine military spokesman said on Monday morning, SIA reports with rfefrence to Reuters.
Separatists have stepped up attempts to push government forces out of the small town of Debaltseve, which is a strategic rail hub northeast of the main regional city of Donetsk, since peace talks collapsed on Saturday.
Kiev military said separatist forces launched more than a 100 attacks by artillery, rocket systems and tank fire on Ukrainian positions and residential areas in the past 24 hours.
"As a result of these attacks and military clashes, Ukraine lost five service personnel and another 29 have been wounded," military spokesman Vyacheslav Seleznyov said at a morning briefing.
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