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VORONEZH, July 10. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko charged with complicity in murder of reporters of the Russian state television and radio broadcasting company (VGTRK) will remain under arrest until August 30.

The Voronezh regional court upheld the ruling to hold her in custody, rejecting her defense's appeal, according to the court's spokesperson Lada Petina.

The case of Savchenko was returned to the Novousmansky district court to correct violations. "She was not provided with copies of the report and procedural documents in Ukrainian," Petina explained. "So far, we return the case to the district court."

Savchenko was arrested by the Novousmansky district court in Russia's Voronezh Region July 2.

The hearing at the regional court was held on Thursday behind closed doors with no journalists allowed. Savchenko was held in an investigation detention center in the city of Voronezh, with video communication established with the court.

Spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee's Vladimir Markin told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday that the committee had brought charges against Ukrainian citizen Nadezhda Savchenko of complicity in the murder of VGRTK reporters Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin. She was detained in Russia and taken into custody.

According to Markin, it has been established that Savchenko served in Ukraine’s armed forces and was a gunner of a Mi-24 helicopter. According to the investigators' information, Savchenko joined the Aidar battalion during military actions near Luhansk. After she got to know the whereabouts of the VGTRK crew and other civilians near Luhansk, she informed the fighters. After that, mortar fire was opened precisely on the spot, killing VGTRK reporters Kornelyuk and Voloshin, Markin s

Without any documents, Savchenko crossed the Russian border as a refugee. She was detained in a residential site to establish her identity, and it was found out that she was a suspect in the criminal case opened over the murder of Russian reporters. Markin added that her detention was carried out strictly in accordance with the law.

Her attorney intended to appeal against holding her in custody, a court spokesperson, Tatyana Fateyeva, told ITAR-TASS on Wednesday. The district court issued a warrant to arrest the suspect and hold her in custody until August 30. The ruling did not come into force in connection with the appeal, Fateyeva said.

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DONETSK, July 10./ITAR-TASS/. Pro-Kiev military forces have sustained losses in their military operation in the east of Ukraine while Donetsk self-defense fighters are continuing to strengthen their defense, the press office of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said on Thursday.

The Ukrainian military’s casualties were confirmed by the press center of Kiev’s military operation.

An armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian army hit a roadside mine near the village of Krasnaya Zvezda in the Donetsk Region on Wednesday. The blast killed two and wounded six Ukrainian servicemen, the press center of Kiev’s military operation reported, adding that self-defense fighters in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions continued to lay mines on the way of the Ukrainian army’s movement.

Last night, a truck with Ukrainian troops was subjected to militia’s machine-gun fire near the village of Muratovo in the Luhansk Region.

“During the battle, one servicemen was killed and three others were wounded,” the press office of Kiev’s punitive operation said.

Local self-defense fighters also attacked several checkpoints of the Ukrainian military in the Luhansk Region, including near the settlement of Metallist. No casualties were reported.

Self-defense fighters also wounded two Ukrainian servicemen and damaged a tank in the Seversky district of the Donetsk Region.

Overall, 173 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and another 446 wounded in Ukraine’s military operation in the country’s east, the press center of the Ukrainian military reported.

The Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which border on Russia, held referendums on May 11, in which most voters supported independence from Ukraine.

Since mid-April, Kiev has been conducting a military operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to bring them back under control.

The operation in Ukraine's embattled eastern regions, which involves armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation, has already resulted in hundreds of deaths, destroyed buildings and forced tens of thousands of people to cross the border from Ukraine to Russia.

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10:38 GMT:

Three Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 27 wounded in clashes with the self-defense forces in the east of the country in the past 24 hours, the military said on Thursday. “The situation in the region remains tense,” according to the press-center of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. There have also been cases of road mining, both of highways and dirt roads, which the Kiev forces use.

06:33 GMT:

Fighting has been reported in eastern Ukraine near the ‘Donetsk’ checkpoint in Rostov Region, southwestern Russia, the press service of the Russian Southern Customs Service reported. The customs officers have been evacuated.

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July 10./ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine's authorities hamper the investigation of the tragedy in Odessa and Mariupol, Russia's high-ranking diplomat has said.

"Nothing happens. No transparent investigation into the May events in Odessa and Mariupol has been conducted," Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.

“Nothing has been reported on the drastic consequences of air strikes on the Lugansk regional administration. I can say the Ukrainian authorities prevent the investigation,” he said.

Russia expects the OSCE Mission to Ukraine to give an objective report on its trip to Sloviansk, destroyed by the Ukrainian army, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

“When the Ukrainian leadership chose the policy towards resolving the crisis by force true information is significant. We note the OSCE readiness for direct contacts with militia,” Alexander Lukashevich said on Thursday.

“Russia notes certain shortcomings in the work of OSCE observers. The mission reports insignificant facts and hushes up the use of heavy weapons against the south-eastern cities,” he said.

A ceasefire in Ukraine should be stable and guaranteed. This is the main condition which the Kiev authorities have failed to meet until recently,” he added.

"Russia wants to achieve the earliest settlement of the internal political crisis in Ukraine. The earliest implementation of the Berlin agreements, which first and foremost concern a ceasefire regime, should be the top priority,” Lukashevich went on to say.

“Regrettably, Kiev has failed to meet this main condition yet. The punitive operation, which is becoming broader and more destructive, continues,” Lukashevich stressed.

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The city council of Lvov in western Ukraine has urged the Nazi collaborators and nationalist icons, Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich, be reinstated as heroes of Ukraine.

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The Ukrainian National Council for TV and Radio Broadcasting has ordered broadcasting of pro-Russian TV programs be stopped in the next 24 hours. Its member, Olga Gerasimyuk, said that “Ukrainian channels and providers are given 24 hours; otherwise they will be shut down and will be called to account.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed “its strong protest” over Ukrainian troops shelling Russia’s Gukovo checkpoint at the borderline between the two countries.

“The Russian side expresses strong protest to the Ukrainian side and demands the cessation of bombardments on Russian territory,” the statement says, adding that "if such incidents are repeated, all responsibility for their consequences will lie with the Kiev authorities."

The Donetsk Multilateral Automobile Border Crossing Point (MAPP) has come under fire for the second time in 24 hours, chief press officer of the southern customs department RayanFarukshin told the Itar-Tass news agency.

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Counterintelligence LC, namely a newly created division of SMERSH KGB, is already active in the breakaway republic. At this point, worked to the redeployment of forces Nazis spent through the gallery. It is known that underground tunnels go on for miles, it is very difficult to control, and in the case of an unauthorized intrusion attempts, the Nazis will throw considerable forces undetected for two to three kilometers or more. Naturally, such a threat could not go unnoticed, surprise effect will lead to a significant increase in losses militia, therefore, that on this issue, works SMERSH.

In order to reduce the chance ukroarmii and not let them take advantage of this opportunity, the leadership of the breakaway republic appealed to the miners. They are encouraged to report all attempts to penetrate into the mines, any suspicious movements of forces not only the Nazis, but also pay attention to the situation as a whole.

First of all, the head of the LC fear a significant increase in the number of saboteurs. Few teams can sneak into the ground, avoid dangerous areas for yourself and get into the city. Subversion in the rear of the militia - is that now we need the least.

Among other things, mine are not simple tunnels, underground located significant voids, there are medical items. Thus, if you do not have to observe these areas, it may appear in the galleries not only the saboteurs, but also more serious enemy forces that might at any time surprise attack.

Command SMERSH - Vladimir Gromov, urges miners to be vigilant and not to remain indifferent. Prime attention from the miners can help avoid a huge number of unnecessary deaths.

Sergei Lyzhin
Central News Agency Novorossia
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Head of the People's Republic of Lugansk Bolotoff Valery reported on progress militia. According to him, the conflict was long, it plays into the hands of the resistance forces, the army of Ukraine carries escalating losses.

In the direction of the airport, in which there are significant accumulations of fascists, constantly working units LC. The result of their concerted action becomes a gradual weakening of the junta. Thus, over the past day, killing more than 50 soldiers ukroarmii, armored personnel carrier and several mortar calculations.

Valery gave a brief summary about the situation on the territory of the LC. In the area of ​​Metalist are proactive, and, on both sides, as well positional fighting continues near the village of Krasny Partizan, while he still has not passed under the control of someone else, at the moment it is not possible to take. However, the melt strength of the junta, and playing is not in its favor. Just Bolotov said: airstrike planes Ukraine was caused by militia positions located in the village of Lugansk, fortunately, managed to avoid serious losses. It should be noted that the center of the city, where the military commissariat, still under fire from long-range artillery, the purpose of fascists in the area became Battalion "Dawn." As there is serious reason to believe that operates a subversive group of fascists, at the moment, we are working to eliminate it.

Leader LC said that the Ukrainian media have recently started to work even harder than before this moment. Lies that they spread, could affect the faith of citizens in peaceful resistance force affects the international community and discredit the freedom fighters, however, very few people believe in a lie, after the Nazi atrocities in the occupied territories. In particular, information was denied by the destruction of "Grad" militias, says Valery Bolotov machines are still on duty.

Sergei Lyzhin
Central News Agency Novorossia
Novorus.info

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Press Center ATO.

The decor in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions remains tense. On the eve of the militias were fighting with heavy weapons and armored vehicles
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The most difficult situation is stored in the settlement areas Donetsk, Gorlovka, Lugansk, Anthracite, Krasnodon.

During the day the army DNR mined roads and dirt roads, which can move forces unit ATU. Actively recruiting volunteers to its ranks from among the local population, and organize training and the formation of new armed groups.

"The terrorists continue to carry out provocative actions, shelling civilians, destroying infrastructure. This is aimed at forming a negative attitude to the leadership of the state and its armed forces, to discredit them at the global level", - the press-center of ATU page in Facebook.

Thus, about 21.00 was done gunfire roadblock near the settlement Sobolevka. No casualties among the security forces.
21.30 - on a land mine exploded BTR-80 near the settlement Chervonaya star. 2 soldiers killed, 6 wounded.
21.15 - 21.50 - was done bombardment and shelling of small arms (PKM, SVD) in the direction of the settlement "Dolzhansky" from the village Biryukove. 7 injured servicemen. 2 of them are in serious condition. 4 injured belong to GAI.
23.40 - done strafing machine "Ural" near the village of Muratovo car was ambushed. During the fight, one soldier was killed and three injured.
0.10-0.20 - done shelling out AGS-17 small arms and one of the checkpoints in the Luhansk region. In response, opened fire with mortars and small arms. No losses.
0.35-0.40 - done shelling out multiple rocket launchers "Grad" one of the checkpoints near the village of Metalist. Rockets went with the flight.

1.00 - in the course of special operations in the area Seversk infantrymen entered into contact with the fire fighters. As a result of the battle destroyed two mortar calculation and destroyed fortifications militants. During the fight, two soldiers were wounded, one damaged tank.

Total per night killed three and injured 27 soldiers.

During the period of hostilities losses totaled 615 ATU forces soldiers. Of them died - 173 wounded - 446.

Tymchuk. Column ATU forces ambushed, killed there

In the Donbas column ATU forces ambushed fighters. This was reported by the group coordinator "Information Resistance" Dmitry Tymchuk. "1 soldier killed, 3 wounded," - he wrote on his page on Facebook.
In addition, he said, was done bombardment checkpoint "Dolzhansky." Also working against the security forces snipers - 5 soldiers wounded.

Previously, it was also reported that in the Donetsk region ATU forces stepped on mines, killing two soldiers were killed, 11 wounded.

Reports to the National Security Council

Force counterterrorist operations will continue active operations as long as the territory of Ukraine is completely cleared of militants. This was stated by the Speaker of the Information Center of the NSDC Andrei Lysenko.

"There is a plan for the liberation of Ukraine from terrorists. And it does not depend on the willingness of small arms and his subordinates to" protect "- as they say - the land of Donbass. Plan will be executed perfectly," - said Lysenko.

All night in different parts of the Donetsk region continued clashes between militia and security forces, said the militia headquarters.

"In short the overall picture can be described as the enemy continues to pull troops to Donetsk, we try to prevent it from doing so. Moreover, our forces continue to hold Seversk around Sloviansk that we need so that the enemy does not ring batted around Lysychansk and boundary Luhansk region. In turn, we've rounded up a large group in the south of the area, near the Saur-Graves, "- said the representative of the Staff.

At the same time Ukrainian army continues shelling Seversk and Karlivka (village west of Donetsk) of heavy artillery.

According to the Staff militia clashes continue in and around Slavic and Kramatorskaya recently retreated from the main forces of the DNI. "Away with Kramatorsk airport (where the troops are concentrated) our group shelled enemy column, 3 BTR damaged, 18 people were killed. Away from Slavic we knocked out two tanks T-64, 4 strongman eliminated."

Defense Minister Igor DNR Gunmen

Ukrainian army of the attack on the city of Donetsk's Republic purposefully destroying their infrastructure to keep local people out of work. This opinion was expressed by Defense Minister Igor DNR Gunmen in an interview first Republican channel.

He also noted the need for mobilization activities and armed militia. "You can not fight half. Impossible to expect that somehow, a small force, small means someone out there will be able to defend the Republic.

Requires serious engagement activities. Unfortunately, the resources for this, first of all weapons, ammunition, not prepared. Them at the moment. Nevertheless, several thousand volunteers, we could arm, equip and train, at least briefly. Within a short time. I believe that 80 thousand people would be enough to stop the Ukrainian army, "- said the head of the defense department DNR.

Sergey Volodin
Central News Agency Novorossia
Novorus.info

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Friday, July 11

03:57 GMT:

Renewed violence is being reported in eastern Ukraine. Fighting has broken out around Donetsk airport, which is controlled by government forces. The premises is being blocked by local militia.

Gunfire and explosions were heard in the city and in the nearby small town of Seversk, which was reportedly targeted by airstrikes.

RT also received reports of heavy shelling in a mining area in the Lugansk region, not far from the Russian border. A bus transporting miners to work reportedly came under fire.

“We work at the same mine, they were my colleagues, they were going to work on the bus when it was shelled by the Ukrainian army. Four people died. And the shelling continues now,” one of the miners, Vadim, told RT.

“They bombed a school, a kindergarden. My brother’s family was walking past as the apartment block was bombed, his wife was wounded in front of their child. There was blood everywhere. Everyone feels lost and scared,” he added.

Other accounts described the Ukrainian army firing at residential houses in the Kamennobrodskiy district of the Lugansk region, Itar-Tass quoted eyewitnesses as saying.

Shelling has also been reported in a residential area of Karlovka village in the Donetsk region.

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09:31 GMT:

The area near the military facilities of Lugansk self-defense forces, eastern Ukraine, is being shelled, local witnesses told ITAR TASS.

Smoke is reportedly seen in the area and the ambulances have already headed to the scene. Lugansk self-defense troops control the area and warn local residents of the danger of shelling.

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LUHANSK, July 11./ITAR-TASS/. Defenders shot down a warplane, supposedly a low-flying attack aircraft, near the town of Perevalsk in the Luhansk region on Friday, the press service of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic told ITAR-TASS.

On July 1, the Luhansk Republic's militia downed a Su-27 attack plane of the Ukrainian Air Force. Two pilots bailed out. A transport Il-76 was shot down when landing at Luhansk airport on the night to June 14. The Il-76 was carrying military equipment, ammunition and servicemen.

Ukrainian army has intensified artillery gun fire at different buildings in Ukraine’s south-eastern Luhansk region over the past day. According to military reports, massive strikes are being delivered at industrial facilities in Lugansk, the main city in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, which militia is protecting from Ukrainian military forces. Militias are trying to avoid direct clashes, but they are using mortars actively.

A transport station came under mortar fire near military facilities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, witnesses reported from the site on Friday.

LUHANSK, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian army has intensified artillery gun fire at different buildings in Ukraine’s south-eastern Luhansk region over the past day. According to military reports, massive strikes are being delivered at industrial facilities in Lugansk, the main city in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic, which militia is protecting from Ukrainian military forces. Militias are trying to avoid direct clashes, but they are using mortars actively.

A transport station came under mortar fire near military facilities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, witnesses reported from the site on Friday.

Smoke was billowing over roofs. Ambulances went to the site. The area was cordoned by forces of defenders warning residents about the shelling.

Mortar fire was opened on a transport station near military facilities of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic on Friday. The press service of the republic reported mortar fire had hit a military commissariat. There were reports that three people were killed and two were wounded. Smoke was billowing over roofs. Ambulances went to the site. The area was cordoned by forces of defenders warning residents about the shelling.


Number of victims rising

Six local residents were killed and 23 were wounded over the past day, the press center of the Luhansk People’s Republic reported on Friday. According to reports from the opposite warring party, the press center of the Ukrainian military operation, three servicemen were killed and 12 were wounded for this period of time. According to reports from the Ukrainian Health Ministry, in general 176 Ukrainian law enforcers were killed and 458 were wounded, 484 civilians were killed and 1,415 were wounded for the whole period of hostilities.

Militias are mainly massed in the city of Luhansk, they have been gradually ousted from other points of defense, leaving mobile mortars behind them. Regular mortar strikes are delivered on positions of Ukrainian military forces, particularly near the village of Staraya Krasnyanka.

Army artillery, mainly 122-mm Soviet howitzers of the WWII era are shelling the city of Luhansk, defenders of the city are already clashing with Ukrainian army units at some places. Since Friday afternoon strikes have been delivered at a bus terminal, near which Luhansk republican military facilities are situated, and at a military enlistment office. Shootouts are going on in the southeast and north of the city, Luhansk city council said. Windows are broken in many houses and building facades are damaged. Power lines and gas pipelines are damaged.

The coal mining equipment department of the local coal mining company and four regional mines of coal mining authority Chervonopartizanskoye belonging to Donbass fuel and energy company came under artillery gun strikes in the south-eastern town of Krasnodon. Lugansk regional sappers have searched through 17 shell explosion sites in the city of Lugansk and its suburbs in the course of the day.

Refugee crisis

The number of Ukrainian refugees already exceeded 26 thousand people in Russian border Rostov-on-Don region. According to reports of the Russian Health Ministry, more than 18 thousand refugees from Ukraine have already turned for medical aid. Over the inflow of Ukrainians from the conflict zone in six Russian regions an emergency was declared in Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Astrakhan regions, Stavropol territory, republics of Kalmykia and Crimea and the Russian federal city of Sevastopol.

According to Federal Migration Service’s reports, 2.5 million Ukrainian citizens have come to Russia since January 1, two million came back to the homeland.

According to Ukrainian State Border Service’s reports, 1.54 million Ukrainians came to Russia from March to June and 1.38 million returned to the homeland.

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Остановитьфашистов! 9 июля в центре Перми прошёл митинг в поддержку сражающегося народа юго-востока Украины. Организовал его Ленинский райком КПРФ при поддержке Пермского крайкома ЛКСМ РФ. В акции поддержки приняли участие коммунисты других районов города, представители общественных организаций, ветераны партии, ветераны правоохранительных органов, жители города. Митинг прошёл под флагами КПРФ и Знаменем Победы.

Ostanovitfashistov! On July 9 in the center of Perm passed meeting in support of the battling people of the southeast of Ukraine. I organized its Lenin district committee of the CPRF with support of the Perm regional committee of LKSM Russian Federation. Communists of other districts of the city, representatives of public organizations, veterans of party, veterans of law enforcement agencies, residents participated in an action of support. Meeting took place under flags of the CPRF and the Victory Banner.

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Friday, July 11

19:53 GMT:

Russian journalists came under mortar fire in Lugansk, where the Ukrainian military targeted a local registration and enlistment office, which they believe is being used by the opposition.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper, journalist Yury Snegiryov and TV reporters were able to leave the area by car. Snegiryov was later driven away by a motorcyclist.

18:48 GMT:

Russia has submitted “the elements” of a future resolution on Ukraine to the United Nations Security Council, Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, told journalists on Friday.

“We have shared the elements which we hope will lay down the foundation for the UN Security Council resolution on Ukraine,” Churkin said.

The Russian delegation has asked its Security Council colleagues to react to the proposal by 10am New York time on Monday.

16:02 GMT:

Ukrainian military planes bombed the town of Dzerzhinsk in the Donetsk region, Donetsk People’s Republic headquarters told Ria Novosti on Friday. The military hit a cemetery, fragments hit a transformer pillar and a gas pipeline - the town is partially without electricity. There have been no reports of injuries so far in the town, which is a stronghold and mustering point for the self-defense forces.

15:13 GMT:

At least 30 Ukrainian military were killed in shellfire on their convoy near Zelenopolye settlement in the Lugansk region on Friday morning, said the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs. As Donetsk People’s Republic headquarters report, a Ukrainian mechanized infantry brigade was attacked by a 'Grad' unit, and “was defeated.” The Defense Ministry press service confirms the deaths of only 19 soldiers.

14:32 GMT:

Self-defense forces downed a military aircraft on Friday near the town of Perevalsk, in the eastern Ukaine’s Lugansk region. It was supposedly an attack plane, a spokesperson for the Lugansk People's Republic said.

14:05 GMT:

Six Ukrainian military and one border guard were killed, and five soldiers were injured in the intensifying clashes along the Russian-Ukrainian border, the Ukrainian State Border Service announced. According to the statement, “the epicenter of the tense standoff reached the state border line today.”

13:17 GMT:
12:35 GMT:

Staff at the Russian ‘Gukovo’ border checkpoint were evacuated twice on Friday because of shooting and shell bursts on Ukrainian territory, said Russia’s Southern Customs Administration's spokesman. “At the moment the employees have once again been removed as far as nearly one kilometer away,” he added. The checkpoint is closed, and the bus terminal building, where the customs officers were operating, was damaged in previous Ukrainian shelling.

09:31 GMT:

The area near the military facilities of Lugansk self-defense forces, eastern Ukraine, is being shelled, local witnesses told ITAR TASS.

Smoke is reportedly seen in the area and the ambulances have already headed to the scene. Lugansk self-defense troops control the area and warn local residents of the danger of shelling.

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The junta continues to affirm its fascist credentials and by extension so do itssponsors :

KIEV, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on Friday held a conference with top officials of the Armed Forces, security and Interior agencies after the death of several dozen Army servicemen in the Luhansk region, a report at the official presidential website said.

The president said in part it was important to track down and to physically eliminate everyone who was responsible for the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers, security and interior officers.

“The militants (the way that the Kiev authorities refer to the fighters of volunteer self-defense forces in Eastern Ukraine. — ITAR-TASS) will pay tens and even hundreds of their own lives for a life of each our soldier (they kill),” the report quoted Poroshenko as saying.

Different Ukrainian government departments and mass media said earlier that from nineteen to fifty military had died near Zelenopolye in Luhansk region, and from ninety-three to a hundred military had been wounded.

In the meantime, the press service of the Defense Ministry has confirmed the death of nineteen and the wounding of ninety-three servicemen.

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