211 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces died in 2016
“This year alone, 211 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces sacrificed their lives for peace and freedom of our country, defending Ukraine from the adversary”, Poroshenko said when delivering a speech in Mariupol. Poroshenko went on saying that despite a slight decrease in fire intensity on the part of Kyiv’s adversary, “the silence agreed upon in Minsk failed to materialize”.