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Kyiv: Five soldiers killed, four wounded in east:
By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
Ukraine's military says that five of its soldiers have been killed and four wounded in clashes with Russia-backed separatists in the east of the country.
The military said in a November 24 statement that four of the soldiers were killed in a gunfight the previous day near the village of Krymske that lasted around eight hours.
Krymske lies around 30 kilometers west of Luhansk, where tensions have escalated this week between separatist factions that control the city.
A total of four Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in clashes with separatists on November 23, the military said. It said eight separatists were killed and nine were injured.
Fighting between Kyiv's forces and the Russia-backed separatists who hold parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions has killed more than 10,000 people since April 2014.
Several cease-fire deals announced as part of the Minsk accords -- September 2014 and February 2015 pacts aimed to resolve the conflict -- have failed to hold.
The latest cease-fire was agreed on August 22 in a phone call between the leaders of Germany, France, Russia, and Ukraine.
Kyiv and the separatists regularly trade accusations of cease-fire violations. (w/Reuters)
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