Ukraine's defense ministry: Almost 100 soldiers killed in Donbas in 2017 alone

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"When speaking at a conference in Georgia, Andriy Petrenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's Defense Ministry [informed]: 98 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in Donbas in 2017 alone, over 800 were wounded in action. More than 1,100 instances of the violation of the ceasefire were registered," she wrote on Facebook.

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