Four Ukrainian servicemen have been killed since the start of a ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists last Friday in eastern Ukraine, a defense ministry official was quoted on Tuesday as saying.
The ceasefire is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month-old conflict the United Nations says has killed more than 3,000 people. It has also caused the sharpest confrontation between Russia and the West since the Cold War.
The ceasefire largely held overnight into Tuesday despite sporadic violations, including in rebel-held Donetsk, the region’s largest city, where government forces hold the airport. A woman was wounded in …read more
Source: Newsweek
