11 July 2014
Last updated at 15:36 ET
The Ukrainian army says one of its key objectives now is to confront rebels who have regrouped in the industrial city of Donetsk
The soldiers were killed in an apparent rocket near the Russian border.
Officials in Kiev say the separatists used Grad missiles.
They say that that more than 90 other soldiers were wounded in the most deadly attack since the president ended a unilateral ceasefire last month.
"For every life of our soldiers, the militants will pay with tens and hundreds of their own," President Poroshenko said.
"Not one terrorist will evade responsibility. Everybody will get what is coming to them," he said in a statement posted on his website after an emergency meeting of security chiefs.
Ukrainian officials say the rebels fired a barrage of Grad rockets at troops in Zelenopillya, a village near the border.
Pro-Russian rebels say they "destroyed a column" of troops there.
Russian-made Grad rockets are heavy artillery weapons fired in
batches from lorries. Both the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces use
them.
On Thursday night the rebels shelled Ukrainian troops at Donetsk airport.
The rebels have regrouped in Donetsk as the Ukrainian military has retaken territory in the country's east. The rebels have not yet broken through to the airport.
A motorised brigade from Lviv, western Ukraine, was targeted in the rocket attack, the Ukrainian news website Unian reports.
Beatings and torture
Ukraine president vows to act over army deaths
The Ukrainian army says one of its key objectives now is to confront rebels who have regrouped in the industrial city of Donetsk
Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko has said his forces will find and destroy
pro-Russian separatists in the east who killed more than 20 soldiers in a
single attack.
Officials in Kiev say the separatists used Grad missiles.
They say that that more than 90 other soldiers were wounded in the most deadly attack since the president ended a unilateral ceasefire last month.
"For every life of our soldiers, the militants will pay with tens and hundreds of their own," President Poroshenko said.
"Not one terrorist will evade responsibility. Everybody will get what is coming to them," he said in a statement posted on his website after an emergency meeting of security chiefs.
Ukrainian officials say the rebels fired a barrage of Grad rockets at troops in Zelenopillya, a village near the border.
Pro-Russian rebels say they "destroyed a column" of troops there.
Separatists in eastern Ukraine have been fighting Ukrainian government troops for more than three months
The deaths come as the Ukrainian army strives to consolidate its recent territorial gains in the east
Grad rockets are standard army equipment in Ukraine and Russia
On Thursday night the rebels shelled Ukrainian troops at Donetsk airport.
The rebels have regrouped in Donetsk as the Ukrainian military has retaken territory in the country's east. The rebels have not yet broken through to the airport.
A motorised brigade from Lviv, western Ukraine, was targeted in the rocket attack, the Ukrainian news website Unian reports.
Beatings and torture
Meanwhile, a report by the human rights group Amnesty
International has accused separatists of abuses in the three-month
conflict.
The group said it had found "graphic and compelling evidence of savage beatings and other torture" by pro-Russian groups in eastern Ukraine.
The Amnesty report, Abductions and Torture in Eastern Ukraine, said that protesters and journalists had been targeted, and hundreds of people had been abducted.
Pro-government forces had also committed a smaller number of abuses, Amnesty said.
The group said it had found "graphic and compelling evidence of savage beatings and other torture" by pro-Russian groups in eastern Ukraine.
The Amnesty report, Abductions and Torture in Eastern Ukraine, said that protesters and journalists had been targeted, and hundreds of people had been abducted.
Pro-government forces had also committed a smaller number of abuses, Amnesty said.
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