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On the occasions referred to by Mr Lavrov, Kiev says Russian troops entered Ukraine to crush government forces at Ilovaisk and Debaltseve respectively; some 9,000 Russian troops started war games yesterday, including units stationed near Ukraine’s border.

The video fuels Ukraine’s suspicion that Russian Federation is backing separatists in the eastern part of the country, an accusation Moscow has vehemently denied.

Ukrainian officials say the country’s troops are acting with restraint but are ready to respond with full force if rebel attacks continue to increase; they also claim that thousands of Russian troops are in eastern Ukraine and just over the border inside Russia, and appear...

The port city of Mariupol is a long-term target for the separatist group known as the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), who have held on to large swathes of land in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and declared themselves independent of Ukraine in May, after the...

The rebel mouthpiece Donetsk News Agency said five people were killed in shelling overnight while Ukrainian officials reported two civilian deaths on their side.

The defense has repeatedly insisted that the case must be heard in Moscow, he said.

The Ukrainian State Border Service said that Ukrainian border guards did not open fire at Russian citizens from the Ukrainian territory near the Krasna Talivka border checkpoint, calling this incident a provocative act.

Russian prosecutors say Savchenko was involved the killing in her capacity as a volunteer in a Ukrainian battalion. They allege she acted as an aerial spotter to help Ukrainian ground forces target the journalists.

But Russian President Vladimir Putin said that efforts to create the United Nations tribunal were premature and counterproductive, since an investigation into what happened, led by the Dutch transportation safety board and due to report in October, is still ongoing.

SBU officials say Starkov and another man who said he was a separatist fighter lost their way and driven towards Ukrainian forces manning the checkpoint.

As for the July 26 incident involving a KAMAZ truck with weapons which was allegedly detained by Ukrainian border guards the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) called it as being “staged by the Ukrainian security services”.

Nikolai Sinitsin, spokesman for the Border Service of the FSB, told RIA Novosti that a few residents of the Novorussky village were vacationing near the lake when they decided to take a selfie at the checkpoint.

Including this expanded training program, the U.S. will have spent over $244 million on supporting Ukraine since previous year.

The vote on the proposal by Malaysia, Australia, the Netherlands and Ukraine to create an global tribunal is set for Wednesday afternoon. Russian Federation proposed a rival text last week that demands justice but does not establish a tribunal.

Some quantum of peace was in the offing in eastern Ukraine when rebel forces in eastern Ukraine announced a unilateral withdrawal of weapons – less than 100mm caliber – from the line of engagement.