Today marks exactly 10 years since the start of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in eastern Ukraine. Chief Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, thanked the soldiers who stood up to defend Ukraine in the spring of 2014. The Chief of Staff reminded that on April 14, 2014, the Anti-Terrorist Operation began in response to the seizure of Sloviansk by an FSB special unit led by an international criminal under Kremlin orders. “With honor, I fulfilled the duties of both the Chief of Staff of the Anti-Terrorist Operation and the Deputy Head and Head of the Anti-Terrorist Oper…