One of the bloodiest battles in the ongoing war, which took place in Aug. 2014 claimed lives of 366 Ukrainian soldiers; hundreds were wounded, captured or gone missing.
Eleven fighters of the Ukrainian military, participants in the 2014 battle of Ilovaisk are still in captivity of Russian mercenaries. Oleksiy Nozdrachev, the head of the Civil and Military Cooperation Department of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said that at a press conference in Kyiv – as quoted by Interfax news agency.
