Ukraine's Defense Ministry has said two Ukrainian servicemen on Wednesday were killed in a blast after stepping on an explosive device, while another soldier was killed in an enemy shelling on the same day.
"Our army has suffered losses over the past day. Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed while on combat missions. Two of them died while stepping on an unidentified explosive device near the village of Pisky, while another one was killed as a result of an enemy shelling of our fortified positions near the village of Novoluhanske," a press secretary of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry for the Anti-Terrorist Operation, Oleksandr Motuzianyk said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday, January 11.
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