Ilya Bogdanov had defected to Ukraine in 2014.
No casualties were reported today at the front, but there were two bomb scares, in Kiev and Kramatorsk.
A Ukrainian jet fighter flew close to the front line for the first time in over two years.
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.
Tensions are running high today as events are held to commemorate the Soviet victory in World War Two.
The court office of the judge presiding over the trial of two Russian spetsnaz soldiers, Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, was torched in the early hours of this morning.
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