Seven servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been killed and 59 injured in the fighting in the area of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) over the past 24 hours, the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) has reported.

NSDC information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko reported this at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

He said that in general, since the beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, 846 servicemen had been killed and 3,072 had been injured.