A soldier walks through the abandoned district of summer houses in Avdiyivka on July 11. Photo by Anastasia Vlasova (Kyiv Post)
Ukraine's Defense Ministry said on July 20 that eight Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 10 were wounded in the previous 24 hours as Russia-backed separatists stepped up shelling attacks on their positions in the country's east.
The ministry said on its Facebook page that four servicemen were killed and seven were wounded on July 20, while on the previous day, four soldiers were killed and three wounded.
A ministry spokesman had initially said that nine soldiers were killed and five wounded over the past two days.
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