Four Ukrainian servicemen were wounded on Thursday, August 24, as a result of shelling by illegal armed formations in eastern Ukraine, one of them died in a hospital in the early hours of Friday, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on ATO issues Oleksandr Motuzianyk said.

"Three soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were wounded last day in the area of the Butovka mine due to enemy shelling," Motuzianyk said at a briefing on Friday.

Another soldier was mortally wounded near the town of Talakivka in Mariupol district and died later in hospital.