In the course of military operations in the conflict zone in the Donbass Ukrainian Army lost killed more than 2.7 thousand. Man, he said during his speech in the United States the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
He said the soldiers were killed, “fire the combined Russian-terrorist forces”.
According to UNIAN, the total death toll in the conflict zone Poroshenko estimated at 10 thousand people.
He also he stated that a prisoner of the armed groups in the east of Ukraine are 120 people, the release of which the Ukrainian authorities can not possibly achieve. In addition, he said, in Russian prisons are now 11 political prisoners in Ukraine.
Poroshenko did not name all the names, but separately mentioned servicemen Hope Savchenko, which a Russian court found guilty of the murders of journalists in Russia, sentenced to 22 years in prison. She herself denies guilt and the decision of the court does not recognize.
The Ukrainian president said that his country had already introduced restrictive measures against those involved, according to him, the illegal prosecution of Ukrainian citizens. In this list there were 84 people.
Poroshenko urged Western countries to tighten sanctions against Russia, including to join the restrictive measures imposed Kiev. According to the president, you can not cancel the sanctions as long as Moscow does not change its attitude to the world order.
Earlier Poroshenko, speaking about the Ukrainian army casualties in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, to call other numbers. In January, he estimated the number of dead soldiers almost 2.3 thousand, and on March 28 – 2.5 thousand people, says RBC Agency
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