One Ukrainian soldier killed, ten wounded in conflict zone on Tuesday

One Ukrainian soldier was killed and another ten were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone on Tuesday, presidential administration spokesman for ATO issues Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.

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"In the past day, we lost one Ukrainian soldier, and another ten were wounded as a result of military clashes in the Donetsk sector," Lysenko said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Russian-backed militants attacked Ukrainian army positions and civilian areas in eastern Ukraine with the use of heavy weapons 53 times on Tuesday.

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