KIEV, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Some 13,000 people were killed and about 30,000 others were injured in the conflict in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, according to data released by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday.

The almost five-year-long confrontation has displaced about 1.5 million people inside the country and caused significant damage to the region's infrastructure, the ministry said in a statement.

According to the ministry, the deployment of UN peacekeeping mission on the entire territory affected by the violence could be an instrument of resolving the conflict.

The confrontation in Donbas region started in April 2014, after government forces launched offensives to regain control of the cities and towns seized by armed groups which declared independence from Kiev. Enditem

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