One Ukrainian soldier has been killed and two injured by rebel fire in violation of a cease-fire deal between Ukraine’s government and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.
In a televised statement Wednesday, a Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman, Leonid Matyukhin, announced the casualties south of Avdiivka, near the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. It was the first government fatality since the warring sides agreed to a cease-fire on September 1 for extending a pull-back of weapons.
“The night in the anti-terrorist operation zone was quiet,” Matyukhin said, using a term Ukraine’s government often applies to the separatists. “However, in the evening the bandits …read more
Source: Voice of America
