Russian-sponsored forces killed one Ukrainian soldier and injured another in Donbas on Sept. 30, the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) reported.
Oleksiy Stryzhak, 39, a paratrooper with the 25th Airborne Brigade, was killed by militant shelling near the village of Novotoshivsk in Luhansk Oblast. He was from Dnipro Oblast.
“The Joint Forces Command expresses its deepest condolences to friends and family of the deceased,” the JFO wrote on Facebook on Sept. 30.
Russian-backed militants violated the ongoing ceasefire 13 times on Sept. 30. Ukrainian forces retaliated.
The most recent ceasefire in Donbas began on July 27, 2020. As a result of frequent violations by militant forces, more than 60 Ukrainian service members have been killed and about 160 have been injured since the agreement entered into force.
Since Russia invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014, over 13,000 people have been killed, nearly 24,000 have been wounded and at least 1.5 million people have been displaced.
