One soldier killed, seven wounded in Donbas in past 24 hours| Ukrinform
KYIV, February 24 /Ukrinform/. One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and seven have been wounded in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas in the past 24 hours.
Spokesman for the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.
"During the shelling and clashes Ukraine has lost one soldier, another seven were injured in past 24 hours," he said.
Four more servicemen released from captivity| Ukrinform
KYIV, February 24 /Ukrinform/. Four more Ukrainian servicemen have been released from captivity today.
Vasyl Budyk, member of the working group on release of prisoners, has told this an Ukrinform correspondent.
"Four more Ukrainian servicemen have been released today: two of them are members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two other are from the Donbas battalion. Now they go to our staff," Budyk said.
According to him, several minibuses with clothes, medicines, foods have been recently sent to the prisoners to Donetsk and Luhansk districts.
24 Feb 2015, 09:40
Generally, the enemy violates the truce in Debaltseve direction.
Donetsk direction: terrorists used artillery and mortars against Opytne, Tonenke, Avdiyvka. Moreover, yesterday, about 9:00 p.m. the enemy made attempt to assault the Ukrainian positions near Dutovska mine.
Mariupil: the bandits continue attacks against the Ukrainian positions near Shyrokine.
There were no attacks in Lugansk direction.
Totally, the terrorists have attacked the ATO positions for 12 times.
There are the flights (10) of the enemy drones along the frontline.
Tuesday, February 24, RIVNE – Mobilized servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine took the oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people. 700 men joined the army.
Ukrainian border guards report four drones flying into Ukraine from Russia| Ukrinform
KYIV, February 24 /Ukrinform/. Terrorists continue to use aerial reconnaissance drones. For the past day, 13 episodes of drones were reported, including four drones flying over from Russia.
Ukraine's border control service stated the news on its website.
"In total for the Donbas conflict zone, 13 drones were observed over the towns of Kramatorsk, Mariupol, Sartana, Velyka Novosilka, Donetsk and Starobilsk, four of them invaded the airspace of Ukraine from Russia," the statement noted.
No overnight shelling and attacks on the border control service of Ukraine by the terrorists was reported. However, the situation in regions of the anti-terrorist operation remains tense.
CIA strikes again.
At least two killed in blast at peace march in Ukraine's Kharkiv
(Reuters) - At least two people were killed and 10 wounded on Sunday when an explosive device was thrown from a car into a crowd attending a peace rally in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said.
An aide to Ukraine's security and defense council said an unspecified number of suspects were arrested over Sunday's blast. The Interior Ministry called the blast a "terrorist act".
Television footage showed emergency workers carrying the body of a wounded or dead victim into the back of an ambulance. Police said two people were killed and 15 wounded. A regional prosecutor initially said three were killed but later revised the figure to two.
Sunday's march in Kharkiv was one of a series of events across
Ukraine marking the deaths of 100 protesters a year ago in an uprising that toppled a pro-Moscow president. More than 5,500 people have since been killed in war between government troops and Russian-backed separatists in the east.
The explosion was the latest in a spate of blasts targeting large Ukrainian cities. Six people were wounded in a similar attack in Kharkiv in late January in what police described as a grenade attack on a group of Ukrainian nationalists.
Kharkiv, the largest city in Ukraine's mainly Russian-speaking east, has been the scene of violent protests by separatists over the past year but is now firmly under government control and most residents remain loyal to Kiev.
A city of 1.4 million, it is more than 220 km (140 miles) from the separatist conflict zone further east where fighting has continued despite a ceasefire deal.
At least two killed in blast at peace march in Ukraine's Kharkiv| Reuters
Kharkiv terrorist attack claims fourth victim - 18-year-old student| Ukrinform
KYIV, February 24 /Ukrinform/. On Tuesday morning, an 18-year-old student died in the hospital from severe injuries he received in Sunday's terrorist bomb attack on a peace march in Kharkiv
Advisor to the Interior Ministry Anton Herashchenko wrote this on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
"An 18-year-old student of Kharkiv State Academy of the Municipal Economy Mykola Melnychuk died in the hospital on Tuesday morning from severe injuries he received in Sunday's terrorist bomb attack on a peace march in Kharkiv. He was the fourth innocent Kharkiv citizen to die at the hands of the Kharkiv guerrilla-terrorist organization," Herashchenko wrote.
According to him, another nine victims affected "by the cynical and bloody terrorist attack with the use of military antipersonnel mine," are still in hospitals in Kharkiv.
As reported, on February 22, the explosion occurred near the Palace of Sports in Kharkiv, killing two people at the head of a peace march. Another ten people were injured and hospitalized, among them the 15-year-old boy, who was admitted to hospital on Sunday with severe head injuries from the blast. The boy fell into a coma, and died from his injuries on Monday despite the efforts of doctors to save his life.
A Russian tank moves from Donetsk to Novoazovsk on Feb. 24. Foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France called on Feb. 24 for a total ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out the "apocalyptic scenario" of all-out war. AFP PHOTO/ ANDREY BORODULIN
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Members of the first military medical unit of the National Guard of Ukraine on Feb. 23 mourned the deaths of four colleagues whose ambulance hit a mine on on the Donetsk Oblast highway between Artemivsk, which is still under Ukrainian control, and Debaltseve, which is now in Russian hands.
The memorial service took place in front of the headquarters of the National Guard in Artemivsk.
About 30 people came to commemorate the paramedics who were on duty and responding to a call to pick up wounded Ukrainian soldiers from Debaltseve, which Ukrainian forces surrendered on Feb. 9.
The bodies will be taken to Lviv, the hometown of all four victims, for burial.
People come to mourn four paramedics from the first military medical unit of the National Guard of Ukraine.
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The widow of Vasyly Zadorozhniy, one of the paramedics killed, cries during a service for the victims in Artemivsk of Donetsk Oblast on Feb. 23.
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People come to mourn four paramedics from the first military medical unit of the National Guard of Ukraine.
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A pro-Russian seperatist stands on the shore of the Sea of Azov in front of the village of Shirokino, controlled by the Ukrainian Army, near the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, on Feb. 24, 2015.
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