Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another six were wounded in fighting in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, UNIAN has quoted Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, presidential administration spokesman for ATO issues, as saying.
"There were three killed in action and six wounded in action," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on 18 August.
As UNIAN reported earlier, combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 96 times in the past 24 hours.