UNIAN reports the Ukrainian Interior Ministry has announced it will conduct an internal investigation on all employees serving in the eastern city of Slovyansk, which was liberated from pro-Russian separatists on July 6.
Deputy Interior Minister Serhiy Yarovyi says the investigation is meant to determine which employees remained loyal to Ukraine and which colluded with the separatists.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said police from throughout Ukraine are prepared to serve in Slovyansk to fill any gap left by the investigation.
RFE's Crimea desk reports that Russian LDPR lawmaker Roman Khudyakov has proposed a redesign of the 100-ruble note to feature an image of Sevastopol.
Khudyakov says the note, which currently features a drawing of the Apollo statue atop the Bolshoi Theater, violates Russian law on the protection of children from harmful information, because it shows "intimate parts of the body."
Apollo's intimate parts were covered with fig leaves during the reconstruction of the Bolshoi, but the bank note remains unchanged.
Khudyakov suggested the bill should be marked with an "18+" warning.
"Given that this denomenation of banknote often falls into the hands of children as pocket money, I urge you to help change the design of the banknotes or otherwise bring it in line with current legislation," he wrote in a letter to the head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina.
Ukraine's Information Resistance website reports that members of an illegal armed group shot mortar fire overnight at three checkpoints manned by Ukrainian troops.
The posts were located near Ilyinki, Marynovki, and Dykovo.
No deaths were reported. Information Resistance also reports that an additional city in the Donetsk region, Konstantynovka, has come under full control of national troops.
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Interfax reports that Valeriy Chaly, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, has said that Kyiv will not declare another unilateral cease-fire in the east.
Speaking on ICTV television late July 7, Chaly said, "the unilateral cease-fire proved to be inefficient. Only a bilateral cease-fire can be on the table now."
Closing out tonight's liveblog with a gratuitous, but always welcome, kitten shot.
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RFE's Glenn Kates and our Ukrainian Service report on the mood in Slovyansk, where resumed food shipments have been met with relief but much work remains to be done.