Two government forces soldiers and a doctor were killed in a conflict with Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine



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One soldier died on a shotgun and another climbed onto a makeshift explosive device, the army said in a statement.

Three army doctors attempted to evacuate the body of a soldier killed in an explosion, one of whom was killed by a separatist sniper and the other two were wounded.

Six other Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the conflict zone on Sunday.

Kiev accused separatists of violating the cease-fire regime 11 times in recent days and firing 120-mm caliber mortars banned under the Minsk peace accords.

Recent fighting has claimed most of the lives of members of the Kiev government forces since March. The period since last April, when Volodymyr Zelensky was elected President of Ukraine, promising to work for an early end to the conflict, has been relatively quiet.

During the conflict with the separatists since 2014, more than 13,000 have already died. people, another around 1.5 million. they were forced to leave their homes.

The Minsk peace accords signed in 2015 dramatically reduced the intensity of the fighting, but both sides did not move towards a political solution.

Kiev and its allies in the West accuse Russia of providing military aid to separatists, although Moscow denies it.



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