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More from AFP on the three servicemen killed in the east:
Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in fresh clashes between government forces and pro-Russian rebels in the former Soviet republic's war-torn east, Kiev said Tuesday.
Government forces suffered losses across various parts of the 500-kilometre (310-mile) frontline splitting the self-proclaimed "people's republics" of Lugansk and Donetsk from the rest of Ukraine, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told AFP.
He said the worst fighting centred on the rebels' de facto capital Donetsk and the southeastern government-held port city of Mariupol, which links separatist territories with the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula.
"We observe an escalation in these areas. Some rebel shellings lasted for several hours," Lysenko said.....