RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that a Ukrainian Security Service statement claims to have captured separatists at a "headquarters" near Popasna in Luhansk, where the "terrorists" were gathering aeronautical maps and other "flight support data" from airports in the region before "handing it over to their leadership, run by Russian special services."
ITAR-TASS quotes IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde as saying the institution has no plans to increase its lending to Ukraine, adding that no additional funding is currently needed.
To put it into context, you'd need the Reuters report from earlier in the day:
The International Monetary Fund's $17 billion (10.03 billion pounds) loan programme for Ukraine may have to be revised if the country's conflict in its eastern regions continues for much longer, the head of the IMF said without specifying further.
"(The IMF program) is premised on having a degree of resolution of the current conflict in the not-too-distant future," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told reporters on Tuesday. "So you see I'm using a lot of precautions, and I'm not pinning down to 'x months,' or a (certain) degree of conflict," she said.
"As it stands and under circumstances and the set of our assumptions, which includes a conflict that is resolved in the not-too-distant future, no additional financing is needed," Lagarde added.
"If any of these key parameters changes substantially, we will have to revisit the whole strategy, because we are talking about a different situation," she said.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest quoted by AFP as saying that "we do anticipate that we'll have some news on that [new Russia sanctions] soon -- as soon as today."
From Secretary of State Kerry today, when he spoke with both Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, by telephone, and in Washington with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Klimkin.
From @GKates:
Ukrainian officials, who have denied using Grads in populated areas despite Human Rights Watch's charge that artillery has come from Ukrainian army positions, have claimed the deadly attacks are provocations from Russia-backed separatists hoping to gain public sympathy.
And what people believe often appears to depend on their political positions.
Few Want To Take Responsibility As Civilians Casualties Add Up In Ukraine War
From our newsroom:
Russia says Kyiv's forces have fired across the border from eastern Ukraine into Russian territory with assault rifles and grenade launchers.
The Foreign Ministry says in a statement today that "we officially demand Kiev stop firing at the sovereign territory of the Russian Federation."
It adds that Russia's Gukovo border post came under rocket and machine-gun fire on July 29.
Kyiv has previously denied similar charges from Moscow.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says after meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Klimkin: "We are in the process of preparing additional sanctions, with Europe."
He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a choice going forward with respect to his ability to be able to have an impact with the separatists."