A Ukrainian soldier was killed and 12 more were wounded in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone on Thursday, the Ukrainian presidential administration's spokesman for ATO, Andriy Lysenko, has said.

"Last day, one soldier was killed and twelve injured in hostilities," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

In particular, the soldier was killed in Opytne, Donetsk region. The injured soldiers were fighting in Horikhove, Svitlodarsk, Avdiyivka, and Maryinka in Donetsk region.