About 120 servicemen have been killed in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) area from the beginning of 2017, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

"Since January 1, 2017 and up to now, the combat irreversible losses of ATO forces have amounted to at least 121 servicemen, 117 of which are servicemen of the Armed Forces of the country," the defense ministry said on Wednesday.

As reported, on May 24, 2017, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak said that the total number of killed Ukrainian servicemen since the beginning of the year was about 100 people.