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Ukrainian State Border Service loses 63 men killed, 10 missing, 372 wounded over year

Published March 5, 2015 at 3:46 pm

Ukrainian border guards march to patrol at the check point of Kuchurgany, some 100 km from the Black Sea city of Odessa, on the border with pro-Russian unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, or Transnistria on April 4, 2014.

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Sixty-three Ukrainian border guards have died during the anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian State Border Service said on March 5.

“Sixty-three border guards have been killed, 372 have been wounded and ten have been announced missing since the beginning of the conflict in the east,” aide of the Ukrainian State Border Service chief Oleh Slobodian said at a press briefing on March 5.