Video from our Ukraine Service. Activists staged a rally in central Kyiv on July 11 demanding the immediate release of Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian pilot held in Russia. (Read our profile of her here.) Savchenko was seized by pro-Russian separatists in June near Luhansk, eastern Ukraine.
She was turned over to authorities in Russia, where she faces charges of complicity in the June 17 killing of two Russian journalists who died in the fighting near Luhansk. The protesters in Kyiv held up banners that read, "Ukraine Needs Nadiya," which also translates as "Ukraine Needs Hope."
OK, they look a bit happier here.
First wedding in the "'Donetsk People's Republic." They don't look very happy.
About two dozen women and children from the embattled city of Luhansk arrived by train on July 9 in Lviv, in the west of Ukraine. Parents said they left Luhansk fearing for the health and safety of their children as fighting intensified in the city between pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian forces. According to official information, some 3,300 people from Ukraine's southeast have found refuge in Lviv. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Supposedly the military situation in eastern Ukraine: