Ukrainian television said on Friday that 20 servicemen had been killed in an attack by pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine during the night, but a military source said the death toll was likely to be lower.
Military officials said a paratrooper unit had come under mortar and tank fire near the town of Shakhtarsk, in the region where a Malaysian airliner was brought down on July 17. The number of casualties on Friday was being checked.
"In total it is known that 14 people died, but the bodies of four of them have not been identified and could be Ukrainian soldiers or terrorists," said military spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky.
Dmytrashkivsky added that "so far we are talking about 10 Ukrainian servicemen dead" in the clash, in the town of Shakhtarsk some 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the MH17 site. Earlier the Ukrainian military had said its troops were ambushed.
Elsewhere Friday, the OSCE rights and security organization said more than 60 international experts, including Dutch and Australians, had reached the site where a Malaysian airliner came down in eastern Ukraine last month.
Recovery work starts immediately,” the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Twitter.
A much smaller group of experts had reached the site on Thursday for the first time in several days after Ukrainian forces halted offensive operations against pro-Russian rebels in the area.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian government forces have intensified their military offensive against the rebels in mainly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine since the airliner came down, killing 298 people............................http://www.voanews.com/content/rebel-attack-leaves-at-least-14-dead-in-ukraine/1969386.html
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