Highest 24-hour death toll since president ended brief ceasefire includes 19 troops killed in rocket attack near Russian borderUkraine’s military has said 23 servicemen have died in clashes with pro-Russia separatists across the east, a development that threatens to shatter slim western hopes of a truce in the three-month insurgency.”In the past 24 hours, while performing special assignments in various regions where the active phase of anti-terrorist operations is under way, 23 servicemen from the Ukrainian armed forces and state border service were killed,” the military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov wrote in a Facebook post. … …read more
Source: The Guardian
