Three servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killen on Friday in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone, eight were wounded, the Defense Ministry's spokesman for ATO matters, Oleksandr Motuzianyk, said.

"Three Ukrainian soldiers were killed, eight injured in the fighting in the past day," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Saturday.

Motuzianyk said one soldier was killed near Troitske, and two in the area of the village of Halytsynivka as the result of shelling from Grads, one soldier was wounded there. In addition, two were wounded on the Svitlodarsk bulge, one in the area of the Butivka coal mine and Pisky, not far from Chermalyk, in Hnutove and Shyrokyne.

The ATO headquarters press center on Saturday morning reported Ukrainian military losses for Friday: three dead, seven wounded.