REUTERS
Eight Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another 16 were wounded in the Donbas conflict zone in the last 24 hours, presidential administration spokesman for the Anti-Terrorist Operation Colonel Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
"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.