Two Ukrainian soldiers injured in booby-trap blast in Donbas

Two Ukrainian soldiers were injured a in booby-trap blast in Donbas / Photo from UNIAN

Two Ukrainian soldiers were injured in a booby-trap blast in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday, August 25.

"Today, August 25, while moving between platoon strongpoints, two members of the Joint Forces were blown up on an unknown explosive device," the press center of Ukraine's Joint Forces Operation Command said on Facebook.

Read alsoDonbas truce: Ukraine reports one ceasefire violation by enemy forces on Aug 24The injured were rushed to a hospital, where they were being provided with the necessary medical assistance. Currently, their state of health is satisfactory.

The leadership of a brigade and military law enforcers are working on the scene. All the circumstances of the incident are being clarified, it said.

Truce in Donbas

• Participants in the Trilateral Contact Group (Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE) on the peace settlement in Donbas on July 22 agreed on a full and comprehensive ceasefire along the contact line from 00:01 on Monday, July 27.
• The new ceasefire regime was enforced at 00:01 Kyiv time on July 27.
• On the very first day of the newly-agreed truce, Russia's hybrid military forces mounted three attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas, eastern Ukraine.