Pro-Russian separatists fired rockets at a Ukrainian military camp in eastern Ukraine before dawn Friday, killing at least 19 troops, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.
The attack happened around 4:30 a.m. near the town of Zelenopolsk, in eastern Ukraine’s restive Luhansk region, military spokesman Yuriy Stets said.
At least 55 other people were injured, according to the nation’s counterterrorism office.
The office of President Petro Poroshenko, whose country has battled separatists in the east for months, accused attackers of using Russian-made Grad rockets against Ukrainian armed forces.
The European Union is sanctioning 11 more people over the Ukraine crisis, the European Council said Friday, bringing the total number subject to EU visa bans and asset freezes because of the crisis to 72.
