One Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and eight were wounded in attacks by separatist rebels in the east of Ukraine in the past 24 hours despite an agreed cease-fire, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said Tuesday.
Clashes between government forces and separatists have fallen significantly in the past three weeks. But Ukraine says separatists are still continuing across a wide area and Russia has accused Kiev of not fully complying with a peace deal worked out in Minsk, Belarus, last month.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in a conflict that erupted almost a year ago when rebels, opposed to a pro-Western government that had come to power in Kiev, seized buildings and subsequently proclaimed pro-Russian 'people's republics' in parts of the industrialized east.
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