18 Ukrainian soldiers were killed only over the first month of this year. Such sad statistics was published by journalist-volunteer Yuri Butusov. Only during the period of escalation of the conflict in the area of Avdiyivka during the last days of January, Ukraine has lost 10 soldiers and 66 soldiers were wounded.
In comparison, over the entire previous year, according to official information of the Defense Ministry, 211 people were killed in the east of Ukraine. And from spring of 2014 in Donbass over 3000 of our fighters perished. It is also the official information.