KYIV. March 2 (Interfax) - Kyiv reports casualties in the special military operation area in Donbas.
"Three our servicemen have been killed and 14 others have sustained wounds in the fighting over the past 24 hours," Ukrainian presidential spokesman for the special operation in Donbas Andriy Lysenko said at a news briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The three servicemen were killed and two others injured as a vehicle carrying servicemen hit a mine on the Horne-Lysychansk road, he said.
Three other servicemen were injured near Tryokhizbenka, where a mobile task force uncovering contraband was shelled with a grenade launcher.
Six other servicemen were injured near Artemivsk, and one each in Maryinka, Slavne and Chermalyk, Lysenko said.
Ukrainian government positions have been shelled a total of 47 times over the past 24 hours, and the situation in the Luhansk sector was the most complicated one, he said.
"The enemy has attacked three times right on the line of contact over the past 24 hours," Lysenko said.
The intensity of fighting in the Donetsk sector was low, although the militias fired 82mm and 120mm mortars five times, he said.
The militias also resorted to acts of provocation along the so-called Svitlodar Arc and at Donetsk airport, he said.
The militias also used mortars three times near Chermalyk and Shyrokyne in the Mariupol sector, he said.