About 2, 3 thousand Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives in the Donbas during the special operation, which lasts for a second year, said Tuesday at a press conference the head of Department of civil-military cooperation of the armed forces of Ukraine Oleksiy Nozdrachev.

"today, killed About 2, 3 thousand soldiers," he said Tuesday at a press conference. Words Nozdrachev leads to Ukrainian news.

the Commissioner of the Ukrainian security forces has supplemented his Words by the fact that more than 270 military are considered as missing persons, of which up to 80 people have the opportunity to be in captivity.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were About 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed as well as among them during the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

The reform of the Constitution of Ukraine in the part of the decentralization envisaged by the Minsk agreements of February 12. Amendments must take into account peculiarities of particular districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, agreed with the commissioners of these districts ". The authorities DND and LNR many times sent its proposals for reform, but never received a reply.

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