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Twenty Ukrainian soldiers wounded in the anti-terrorist operation area in the east of Ukraine will on Tuesday, Sept. 2 go Germany to undergo treatment, director of the military-medical department of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine Vitaliy Andronaty has said.

“As a result of the agreements [reached] by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, we’re sending 20 of our wounded military men for treatment in Germany,” Andronaty said at the main military-medical hospital in Kyiv on Tuesday, Sept. 2.

Andronaty said that both Ukrainian and German specialists selected the wounded. Those wounded in the last 3-4 days were given preference, along with those who don’t need a long rehabilitation and whom could be fixed up soon. At the moment 11 persons among 20 wounded in the east, including in Ilovaisk, are bed patients.

All military men will be sent on Tuesday, Sept. 2 by aircraft belonging to the German military, the Bundeswehr, in three different German cities: Koblenz, Hamburg and Berlin.