Military blogger Tymchuk weighs in, disputing an allegation that Ukrainian military forces bombarded civilians (in Snizhne in Donetsk region), causing casualties, saying Ukrainian authorities haven't conducted any aerial missions since yesterday's AN-26 downing.
"The Moscow Times" and Interfax [update: and now the "Kyiv Post," spelling his surname Dolhov] report that the editor of two Russian-language periodicals from Ukraine's eastern city of Mariupol has reportedly been found dead. Konstantin Dolgov, the editor of the Glagol online news portal, wrote on the VKontakte social network on July 13 that the body of Sergei Dolgov had been found in a park in the city of Dnipropetrovsk bearing evidence of torture.
There has been no official confirmation of Dolgov's death.
His colleagues say he was abducted in Mariupol in mid-June.
A man identified as Konstantin Dolgov alleges that soldiers of the Ukrainian Dnepr-1 territorial defense battalion were involved in the abduction. That information does not appear to have been corroborated.
Sergei Dolgov was the editor of two local periodicals -- "Hochu v SSSR" (I Want To Be In The U.S.S.R.) and "Vestnik Priazovya" (The Azov Region Courier).
He was involved in a project on gathering data about alleged rights violations by Ukrainian law-enforcement officers amid Kyiv's ongoing offensive against pro-Russian separatists.
Tymchuk also tries to address some of the discussion and criticism of his suggestion yesterday that Russia was preparing an "invasion on July 15":
Nobody says that tomorrow there will be a Russian war against Ukraine in a different format than the one that we have been seeing for [the past] four months. As of tomorrow, the commanders of the Russian special forces groups must be ready for deployment to Ukraine. We already went through it in April, when the Russian subversive and reconnaissance groups [SRG] roamed around Donbas just like in [their own] home.
We, the IR group, do not think that Russia is ready for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine–with escalating numbers of Russian troops on the border, we don’t observe “complete” operational and tactical groups, which will be able to carry out such an invasion. Perhaps there will be attempts to invade under the guise of “peacekeepers,” but this is clearly a fallback. For now, the Kremlin’s task is to maximally destabilize the situation in Donbas with the goal to draw the conflict out into a full-blown civil war.
Pro-Kyiv military blogger Dmitry Tymchuk says "it is currently known that two pilots have been captured by the insurgents" following the downing yesterday of an AN-26 transport aircraft carrying supplies for the Ukrainian military. Other reports claimed one body was found at the crash site. Eight people were reportedly aboard the plane.
Subtle.