At least 363 #Ukraine soldiers killed in the east. Here are the casualties from July 17-28: http://t.co/L2GjQ7LvCR pic.twitter.com/X8GD5At5vl
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) July 31, 2014
Experts today detected presence of human remains on crash site, says OSCE spokesperson.
— Simon Kruse (@crusoes) July 31, 2014
OSCE and experts fr Netherlands and Australia today reached crash site. Heard and saw artillery fire 10 km from site. pic.twitter.com/aEdcjbMf45
— Simon Kruse (@crusoes) July 31, 2014
New #Russia conspiracy theory: the CIA is zombifying residents of #Ukraine through the tap water. http://t.co/84fDTYYHfK #soundslegit
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) July 31, 2014
Pretty huge that EU bans loans of longer than 3 months to Russia's biggest bank + biggest high street lender Sberbank http://t.co/dDkX01hun0
— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) July 31, 2014
And here's phrase in new #EU sanctions that provides #France carve-out to continue w/#Mistral sale to Russian navy pic.twitter.com/vQYO1oCvYe
— Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) July 31, 2014
Commander of #Donetsk separatists Strelkov announces that any offences will be dealt with by his military tribunal http://t.co/nuBT6VTocz
— Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) July 31, 2014
RFE/RL's news desk has issued this brief summary of the sanction details published today on the website of the EU's official journal:
The European Union formally adopted broad economic sanctions against Russia today, in response to Moscow's actions in eastern Ukraine.
An EU statement said the new measures, agreed on July 29, target Russia's banking, defense and energy sectors in view of its "actions destabilizing the situation in eastern Ukraine."
The move limits access by Russian state-owned banks to Europe's financial markets which will increase their cost of doing business and hinder their contribution to the economy.
Five banks were named, among them the largest in Russia -- Sberbank -- as well as VTB, Gazprombank, VEB, and Rosselkhozbank.
EU nationals and companies will no longer be allowed to buy or sell new bonds, stocks or other debt instruments with maturity of more than 90 days issued by such banks.
Sales of arms and dual-use technology are banned, along with sensitive technologies in the oil sector but not gas, where Russia supplies about a third of the EU's needs.
There's a very sad story here of a slain Ukrainian soldier, whose mother reportedly recieved a taunting letter from his pro-separatist killers. They accused him of "invading their land" (from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service).
Detail junkies can get the nitty gritty on the European Union's latest sanctions against Russia from the EU's official journal.