A total of 789 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the area of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) in eastern Ukraine, including ten killed in the last 24 hours, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said.

"Ten Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 30 have been injured over the past 24 hours," he told Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv on Friday.

In total, he said, 789 Ukrainian military have been killed and another 2,789 injured since the beginning of the ATO.