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Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.
Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

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09:51 30.7.2014

09:50 30.7.2014

Very helpful interactive mapping in "Wall Street Journal" of the debris from MH17:

09:44 30.7.2014

09:28 30.7.2014

RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service quotes the Foreign Ministry in Kyiv saying Russia has expelled a Ukrainian journalist who has been covering the case of abducted Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko. Russian authorities say the journalist, Yevheniy Aharkov, who was detained on July 18, was working without proper accreditation. He was also fined.

Savchenko, who was captured by separatists on June 18 before apparently being forcibly taken to Russia and handed over to Russian authorities, has been accused by those authorities of complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists who were covering the violence in eastern Ukraine.

09:14 30.7.2014

Pro-Kyiv military blogger Dmitry Tymchuk says this morning that seven tanks that "arrived last night from the territory of Russia" supported a separatist attack overnight in the area of Dubrovka.

08:39 30.7.2014

In his Reuters interview, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin vowed with respect to Donetsk and Luhansk, where heavy fighting has been taking place, that "we will not attack such cities." The Kyiv-led authorities will regain control "through the political process, not by attacking those cities."

08:12 30.7.2014

Obama's Russia Envoy Nominee: U.S. Will 'Never Accept' Crimea Takeover

John Tefft, a career foreign-service officer, in a 2012 photo from his tenure as ambassador to Ukraine.
John Tefft, a career foreign-service officer, in a 2012 photo from his tenure as ambassador to Ukraine.

08:10 30.7.2014

08:09 30.7.2014

With the Ukrainian army gaining ground in fierce fighting against separatists around Donetsk and elsewhere, pro-Russia commander Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov) decided it was time to issue an order banning public profanity in the ranks. Such language is non-Russian in origin, he says, and its usage thus "demeans us spiritually and leads an army to defeat." He orders that it be regarded as "a serious disciplinary offense and punished accordingly."

Drinking by warriors constitutes "blasphemy," he adds.

22:20 29.7.2014

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