Three soldiers killed in Ukraine clashes

Three Ukrainian soldiers died in fresh clashes in the country's rebel east, the military said on Sunday.

"Three officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed as a result of shelling near the Avdiivka base", some 12 kilometres (about 7 miles) north from the rebel stronghold Donetsk, the army said.

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Kiev had earlier reported that Kremlin-backed separatists used Grad rocket launchers to shell residential areas, which left 17 houses in ruins.