Over 2,600 Ukrainian servicemen were killed and over 9,000 were wounded since the beginning of the Russian aggression in February 2014, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said.

"On February 20, 2014, Russia launched its military aggression against Ukraine, having occupied the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. Today, this aggression continues in Donbas. Since the aggression occurred, over 2,600 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and over 9,000 have been wounded. Only for the last two months of 2016 Ukrainian positions have been attacked over 2,500 times that resulted in killing of 12 servicemen and wounding 150 of them," Foreign Ministry said is a statement issued on Monday.

The ministry stressed that Russia-formed, equipped and financed army in a number of 40,000 under the command of Russian officers during their aggression against Donbas.

"This army has the most modern Russian weapons: heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers, equipment for encrypted communication and surveillance, anti-aircraft missiles. At present this army has about 470 tanks, 870 armored vehicles, 450 artillery systems, 190 multiple rocket launchers. Russia also uses prohibited weapons such as cluster ammunition and anti-personnel mines," the statement said.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also noted that Russia had not fulfilled any of its commitments under the Minsk agreements. In particular, Russia and militants that it controls continue military provocations with the use of weapons, which should be withdrawn under the OSCE supervision and monitoring, namely multiple launch rocket systems, artillery, 82-mm and 120-mm mortars. Russian troops in Donbas also continue unimpeded rotation, training, and delivery through uncontrolled areas of the Ukrainian state border.