REUTERS
No Ukrainian soldiers were killed but one was injured in the Donbas conflict zone over the last 24 hours, National Security and Defense Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
"Over the last day, we haven’t lost any Ukrainian soldiers, but one was injured as a result of military clashes," Lysenko said.
As reported earlier, Russian-backed militants fired on the positions of the Ukrainian armed forces eight times from 2000 on Thursday to 0800 on Friday.
A ceasefire was declared again in the Donbas conflict zone on February 12, but like the previous three it has never been fully observed, and only resulted in a decrease in the fighting.
According to the Ukrainian government, Russian-backed militants have gained control of another 200 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory since February 12, when the latest ceasefire was supposed to have come into effect.