I'd been holding back on sharing these tweets for confirmation, but will run them now, given the Reuters report on two Ukrainian fighter military jets being shot down.
Many sources are reporting at least one fresh shootdown of a Ukrainian fighter military jet -- while Reuters, for instance, says "pro-Russian rebels shoot down two Ukrainian fighter jets," quoting a Ukrainian military spokesman.
Reuters quotes Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuriy Prodan as saying that gas reverse gas flows from EU territories to Ukraine have fallen and linking it to Gazprom activity.
The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council responds to questions about the whereabouts of RT contributor and British national Graham Phillips that it doesn't "have any information concerning this journalist." Phillips, who has been detained by Ukrainian authorities in the past and whose aggressive tweeting and dubious reporting from eastern Ukraine have earned him considerable notice, last issued this tweet yesterday afternoon: