Servicemen involved in the anti-terrorist operation in east Ukraine will receive the status of combatants after the operation is over, Acting Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Koval has said.

"As for the status of combatants, we have all legal documents, but the process of issuing such certificates is not underway now, it will be happen after the end of all activities that we are conducting," he told reporters in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Koval noted that all operation participants had been registered.