Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak has said that today there are about 34,000 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) area in Donbas.

"About 34,000 our servicemen are fulfilling the task in the ATO area," he told journalists before the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday.

According to the minister, other military men undergo various kinds of training, including in the framework of drills at the training grounds.