More than 65 Ukrainian border guards lost their lives in the Donbass since the conflict began, said Wednesday the press service of the State border service of Ukraine.

in early March, the state border service of Ukraine stated that the border guards since the beginning of the confrontation in the Donbass lost 63 people killed, 372 were injured health, Another 10 have disappeared.

"During the clashes and attacks 66 border guards lost his life. 397 soldiers were injured health ", - reported in the dispatch office.

according to the state border service, the status of combatants has already received More than eleven thousand border guards, 600 of them have been awarded state prizes, 62 posthumously.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began More than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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