In the Donbass, three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in fighting.
Arsen Pavlov, aka Motorola, was killed by a blast in his apartment building yesterday. Pavlov had admitted to murdering Ukrainian POWs.
Russia-backed forces reportedly used heavy artillery to shell Shirokino, on the Azov coast.
One Ukrainian soldier was killed and 6 wounded today in battle. The former premier of the self-declared “Lugansk People’s Republic” was reported to have committed suicide in custody.
The Ukrainian military reported 14 attacks yesterday.
Ukraine Day 929: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine While Ceasefire Largely Holds, Russian-Backed Forces Still Fire on Ukrainian Positions; No Casualties 2016-09-04 04:23:51 Since the declaration of a ceasefire […]
The Russian and Ukrainian media are avidly investigating the claims made by Russia’s Federal Security Service regarding two alleged Crimean border clashes. The opinion is that war will escalate due to the Kremlin’s vow to respond to the clashes and other factors.
Meanwhile the level of fighting in the east has dropped somewhat, and the leader of the Lugansk separatists has said he is prepared to send negotiators to talk to Nadiya Savchenko.
The level of fighting has fallen for the second day in a row (which may be nothing more than part of a regular cycle), but Ukraine still suffered heavy military casualties yesterday.
On Saturday, May 23, as we reported on our Ukraine Live blog, Aleksei Mozgovoy, commander of the Prizrak (Ghost) brigade, a Russian-backed separatist leader was assassinated along with those traveling in three cars with him — his bodyguards, driver, and press secretary, Anna Avseyeva, the mother of three children — were all killed in Mozgovoy’s […]
