June 4, 2014
“In total, 181 people were killed and 293 injured in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” Ukraine’s Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky said, adding that the death toll includes 59 Ukrainian servicemen.
In mid-April, Ukraine’s interim government launched a special operation to crack down on federalists, but failed to gain control over the self-proclaimed independent republics in the country’s east.
Billionaire Petro Poroshenko, who garnered 54.7 percent in the May 25 presidential vote, demanded that Ukrainian forces complete the special operation in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk until his inauguration on June 7.
Moscow has repeatedly condemned the new Kiev authorities for what it called “a punitive operation” and stressed the need for de-escalation of the Ukrainian crisis.
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