Ukraine reports 8 WIA in past 24 hours

Eight Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, according to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Presidential Administration.

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"There were eight wounded in action (WIA)," Andriy Lysenko, administration spokesman for Anti-Terrorist Operation issues, stated at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, a UNIAN correspondent reported.

As UNIAN reported earlier, combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 54 times in the past 24 hours – 22 times in the Donetsk sector, 20 times in the Mariupol sector and 12 times in the Luhansk sector.

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