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  Ukraine: Three More Soldiers Killed in Fighting with Pro-Russian Separatists

   by VOA News

   Ukraine says three of its soldiers were killed and 17 wounded in new
   fighting with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as a
   cease-fire in the region continues to unravel.

   Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said two of the deaths
   occurred from a mortar attack near the town of Svitlodarsk, northeast
   of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk.

   Meanwhile, U.S. assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs
   Victoria Nuland is in Moscow for meetings with Russian officials in a
   new bid to try to implement the truce.  She also is meeting with
   non-government Russian groups during a two-day visit.

   Earlier, after meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv, Nuland said
   the fighting in eastern Ukraine has diminished.  But she said, "None of
   us should be satisfied with the results, so that is why we want to push
   harder on all these things and see what we can achieve in the coming
   days and weeks."

   Eighty six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in fighting with the
   rebels since the cease-fire was announced in February.


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References

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