Ukraine’s Security
Service said they had been killed in an "artillery shelling allegedly
conducted from the LPR’s positions".
LUGANSK, May 27.
/TASS/. Two officers of the Ukrainian Security Service died in clashes with
servicemen of the Ukrainian army in the zone of the so-called Joint Forces
Operation (JFO) in Donbass, Andrei Marochko, a spokesman for the defense
ministry of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), said on
Sunday.
"According to
our data, Ukrainian Security Service officers were killed in yet another
conflict with servicemen of the Ukrainian army in the zone of the so-called
Joint Forces Operation," LuganskInformCenter quoted him as saying.
According to
Marochko, Ukraine’s Security Service has confirmed the death of its officers
but said they had been killed in an "artillery shelling allegedly
conducted from the LPR’s positions."
"We would like
to recall that the LPR’s forces have withdrawn their heavy weapons from the
contact line, which fact was confirmed by OSCE reports," Marochko
stressed.
Press secretary of
the Ukrainian Security Service Elena Gitlyanskaya said earlier Security Service
officers had come under artillery shelling while performing their combat duties
in Donbass. Two were killed and one was wounded.
Source: ITAR-TASS
28-05-2018
