Baku – APA. “About 300 separatists have been killed in a week in the east of Ukraine”, said the adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Anton Gerashenko, APA reports quoting Ukrainskaya Pravda.
According to him, the separatists suffered casualties by artillery strikes near the Donetsk Airport, Gorlovka, Komsomolski and Volnovakha.
Representatives of the self-proclaimed People Republic of Donetsk have not confirmed this information. They said that Ukraine suffered more casualties in the fights ear airport.
Deputy Chief of Staff Edward Basuri told Interfax that 200 Ukrainian militants have been killed, 300 – injured, 27 tanks and 20 armored vehicles – destroyed in the fights. He noted that 16 separatists have been killed, 60 – injured.