A car of Ukrainian servicemen came under fire from an anti-tank missile system near the town of Zolote in Luhansk region on Wednesday evening, with one soldier killed and four others injured, the press service of the Luhansk regional civil-military administration has said.

"The news of our losses among servicemen near Zolote has become another confirmation of the fact that the war continues, and the enemy is not going to stop the attempts to escalate the conflict. Together with all of Luhansk region, I express my sincere condolences to the family and relatives of the deceased defender of Ukraine, and I wish a speedy recovery to the wounded soldiers," the press service of the regional administration quoted Yuriy Harbuz, head of the Luhansk regional civil-military administration, on its page on Facebook on Thursday morning.

The Joint Forces Operation (JFO) headquarters said in its report for August 8 that one Ukrainian serviceman was killed in Donbas, three others were wounded, and the search was underway for another soldier with whom the contact was lost during a combat clash.