KIEV: Ukraine on Monday reported the death of four soldiers in clashes with pro-Russian rebels that came just hours before another failed bid to negotiate an end to the 15-month separatist revolt.
Military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said another 15 servicemen had been wounded in the past 24 hours of fighting across the eastern Russian-speaking provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk.
“The first week of August… has been very tense,” Lysenko told reporters.
The insurgents countered that indiscriminate shelling by Kiev’s forces had damaged power lines and four buildings in Gorlivka –a rebel bastion more than 30km northeast of their de facto capital Donetsk.
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Source: theSun
