Ukraine Day 1477: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Russia-backed forces fired on Luganskoye. There were no casualties reported.
Yesterday’s coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here.
An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine
Russian soldier Viktor Ageyev
Russia-backed forces fired on Luganskoye, Liga.net reported. There were no casualties reported.
Mariupol News reported that OSCE had recorded damage from shelling in Pikuzy (Kominternovo).
Translation: OSCE patrol fell under fire in Donbass.
Svetlana Ageyeva, the mother of Russian soldier Viktor Ageyev, appealed to Presidents Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump for the release of her son, Novaya Gazeta reported.
Ukrainian forces captured Ageyev, a Russian contract soldier from Altai Territory on June 28, 2017 in Lugansk Region. He was found guilty by a Ukrainian court of participation in a terrorist organization and unlawful handling of weapons and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. He has not been included in POW lists.
— Catherine A. Fitzpatrick