Of the Ukrainian soldiers who fought in the August 2014 battle in Ilovaisk in Donetsk region, 84 are still missing, and 11 are being held captive in Luhansk and Donetsk today, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

"We know that 128 were captured. If I'm not mistaken, 11 servicemen and Interior Ministry officers that participated in the combat episode near Ilovaisk are still being held," Oleksiy Nozdrachov, the director of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' civilian-military cooperation department, said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

In total, 158 soldiers went missing in the battles near Ilovaisk, he said.

The number of missing soldiers includes dead bodies and fragments of bodies that have been found but currently cannot be identified, Nozdrachov said.

"If we just take the period of the Ilovaisk battle, there are another 15 missing people, whose bodies, which we cannot identify right now, remain in morgues," he said.

A total of 366 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in action near Ilovaisk in August 2014, including 150 members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Nozdrachov said.

In late August 2014, enemy militias surrounded several Ukrainian volunteer battalions and Interior Ministry and Army units outside Ilovaisk, causing great losses of life and resulting in Ukrainian soldiers being captured by the enemy.

According to official information from the Ukrainian side, 366 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another 429 injured in the hostilities.

On August 14, 2017, Ukraine's Chief Military Prosecutor's Office sent information about evidence of "war crimes committed by the divisions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, including the killings of Ukrainian soldiers near Ilovaisk in 2014" to the office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court "with a view to opening criminal proceedings," the Ukrainian prosecutors said.