Ukraine reported the death of two soldiers in Donbass

The headquarters of the operation of the joint forces of Ukraine reported that two soldiers were killed and four were injured as a result of shelling by pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass.

The Ukrainian military said it had recorded 70 ceasefire violations since the start of the day, compared with 66 incidents the day before. According to the headquarters of the joint forces, more than 30 settlements controlled by Kyiv came under fire.

On the afternoon of February 19, a group of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the Servant of the People faction and representatives of foreign media came under fire in the zone of the joint forces operation. There were no reports of casualties or casualties as a result of the shelling.

The representative of the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed DPR, Eduard Basurin, told Interfax that as of 17:00 Moscow time, "the enemy opened fire on the territory of the DPR 39 times." Earlier, on February 19, a representative of the DPR claimed that Ukrainian saboteurs staged "a number of terrorist attacks in the region, as a result of which there were wounded and dead citizens." He did not give the exact number of deaths. Basurin also said that a group of journalists had come under fire in the village of Vasilievka; Whether anyone was hurt in the incident is unknown.

The LPR reported on the afternoon of February 19 that since the beginning of the day, the Ukrainian military had violated the ceasefire 17 times. There were no reports of dead or wounded in the LPR.