REUTERS

On April 6, two Ukrainian military servicemen were killed in the Donbas warzone in the country's east.

That's according to Ukraine's Joint Forces.

One soldier succumbed to wounds sustained in a mortar shelling by Russian occupation forces near the village of Nevelske.

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Another Ukrainian defender was killed near the settlement of Stepne where he blew up on an unidentified explosive device.

All circumstances of the two incidents are being thoroughly investigated.

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