Separatist Attacks Kill 3 Ukrainian Servicemen

Ukraine said three of its soldiers have been killed in attacks by Russia-backed separatists over the last 24 hours, in the latest flare-up of violence in eastern Ukraine since a cease-fire agreement was signed in September. Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters in Kyiv on Wednesday that one of the troops was killed by a sniper, another by small-arms fire and and a third by mortar fire in separate incidents around eastern Ukraine. A fourth Ukrainian soldier was...

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