Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that 2,269 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed during the fighting in Donbas.
“A total of 2,269 of our warriors have been killed defending Ukraine from the Russian aggression,” he said on Friday at the Ivan Bohun Kyiv Military Lyceum’s ‘Lesson of Courage’ dedicated to Kruty Heroes Memory Day.
Poroshenko said that as of late 2015, there were 21 men younger 18 years and 650 persons from 18 to 25 years old among killed in the war-torn.
Besides, it was said that for the war period, 121 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine obtained a status of the participant of military actions.
“Almost 10,000 men were awarded by decorations and medals. Twenty-six men and one woman, Nadia Savchenko, were conferred a title of the Hero of Ukraine, 14 of them – [were granted titled] after life,” the president added.
The head of state also reiterated that there were times when “almost the whole Donbas was under enemy’s control, but its bigger part was liberated.”
