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A family of four declared missing yesterday were found to have been killed when their vehicle went over a land mine.

Four civilians were declared missing near the front line.

Nine policemen were injured during a soccer melee during a match attended by President Petro Poroshenko between Ukraine’s Mariupol team and Russia’s Dinamo.

The Ukrainian Security Service conducted a series of arrests today of persons that it claimed were supporting the Russia-backed forces, including journalist Yuriy Lukashin.

Feliks Kubin, a Russian who defected to the US in 2013, says that he was approached before that time by FSB counter-intelligence officers who wanted him to help develop fast-acting poisons that Moscow could use against its opponents.

A Russian escort featured in Russian opposition Alexey Navalny’s recent expose of possible connections between former Trump aide Paul Manafort through Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to the Kremlin has been arrested in Thailand and has asked for political asylum in the US.

Moscow’s spending on Vladimir Putin’s much-ballyhooed military campaign in defense of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is leading to enormous cutbacks in its spending on health, education and welfare for the Russian people.

Russian media has provided only one-sided coverage of the war in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Western media coverage has revealed the terrible toll on civilians from attacks by Syrian government forces backed by Russia.

A plaza in honor of slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was unveiled in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, Nemtsov’s colleagues in Moscow struggle to keep his memory visible.

Nine protesters were detained and 14 officers were injured in a violent protest by nationalist and populist groups at the Ukrainian parliament. One soldier was wounded at the front.