Read the English translation of the interview by Mumin Shakirov of RFE/RL's Russian Service with Artur Gasparyan, who spent a month fighting with the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine:
Interview: I Was A Separatist Fighter In Ukraine
Reportedly the situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine today:
More on the reports of military hardware flooding in from Russia to the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine:
Latest from our news desk:
Russia's Foreign Ministry says that an incident on July 13 in which a cross-border shell fired from Ukraine hit two houses in Russia, reportedly killing a Russian man and injuring two women, may have "irreversible" consequences.
A ministry statement said Ukraine had been handed a note of protest that described the incident as "an aggressive act by the Ukrainian side against sovereign Russian territory and the citizens of the Russian Federation." (Reuters and AFP)