Interfax-Ukraine
July 2, 2014
Ukrainian defense ministers claims 29 troops captured in southeast
A total of 29 Ukrainian troops have been captured by illegal armed groups in southeast Ukraine, Ukraine’s Acting Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval said.
“To date, 29 military hostages are in captivity,” Koval said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian side is doing all it can to secure their release, he added.
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Interfax-Ukraine
July 2, 2014
200 servicemen and law-enforcers killed during anti-terrorist operation in Ukraine’s east – Security and Defense Council
Two hundred Ukrainian servicemen and law enforcement personnel died and 619 people were wounded in eastern Ukraine since the anti-terrorist operation started, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council said.
“The total number of dead is 200 people since the counter-terrorism operation started,” Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council information center representative Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
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