More than 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the Eastern Ukraine war began in April 2014, the head of the civilian-military cooperation department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksiy Nozdrachov, said Tuesday. In addition to the death toll, which represented nearly a third of the total number of deaths in the country as a result of the war, there were reported to be around 270 service personnel still unaccounted for, according to Tass, a news agency backed by the Russian government.
