Eight Ukrainian soldiers killed, 16 wounded in Donbas in last day

REUTERS

"In the last day, we lost eight Ukrainian soldiers, and another 16 were injured as a result of military clashes," Lysenko said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the situation in Donbas has been escalating as the combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions and civilian areas in eastern Ukraine 100 times in the last day.

In addition, five Ukrainian soldiers were killed in a blast of an unidentified explosive device near the village of Stanytsia Luhanska near the Ukrainian-Russian border on Tuesday.