Kyiv says two soldiers killed in east:
By RFE/RL
Ukraine says two of its soldiers have been killed and three wounded in clashes with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east.
The Defense Ministry said on October 11 that the fighting also left six separatists dead and 10 wounded.
The separatists violated a cease-fire 28 times during the previous 24 hours, firing antitank missiles, machine guns, grenade launchers, and mortars, a statement said.
Meanwhile, the separatists claimed that Ukrainian government forces violated the cease-fire 25 times, but that nobody was hurt.
Since April 2014, more than 10,300 people have been killed in fighting between Ukrainian government forces and the separatists who control parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Cease-fire deals announced as part of the Minsk accords -- September 2014 and February 2015 pacts aimed to resolve the conflict -- have failed to hold.
A new cease-fire agreement was reached in late 2017 and was meant to begin on December 23, but both sides have accused each other of repeated violations since then. (w/Interfax and TASS)