Ukraine’s Poroshenko Says Fighting Killed 7,000 as Truce Strains
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said about 7,000 civilians have been killed during the conflict with pro-Russian separatists, as military casualties placed fresh strain on the fragile cease-fire.
Two soldiers were killed and 26 wounded in clashes with rebels in the past 24 hours, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters in Kiev on Friday. Separatists shelled government positions using weapons that should have been withdrawn from the conflict zone under the truce agreement signed in Minsk, Belarus, in February, he said.