Ukrainian businessman Vyacheslav Konstantynovsky recently made headlines when he sold his Rolls-Royce to buy equipment for Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. He spoke to our Russian Service about his motivation for doing so. Read more here (in Russian).
According to our Ukrainian Service, the Russian airline Dobrolot, the low-budget carrier of Aeroflot, has suspended its flights to Crimea after being hit last week with EU sanctions (in Ukrainian):
Officials in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea admit that they cannot keep the region supplied with food from Russia, as the ferry over the Kerch Strait is insufficient:
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This pic of an apparent separatist rally in Donetsk calling for the deployment of Russian troops in the region has been doing the rounds on Twitter:
#Харків #Харьков сейчас: Под лениным проходит сепаратистский митинг, с прямыми призывами к вводу российских войск pic.twitter.com/Ik2xuWH9cw
— Новости Украины (@Dbnmjr) August 3, 2014
#Ukraine is taking a lot of territory quickly in the east but at a high cost. Dispatch 64 https://t.co/Bcut0aUIwN
— Simon Ostrovsky (@SimonOstrovsky) August 2, 2014
Russia in the Age of Putin is called, by @TheEconomist & others, a mendocracy: rule by liars. It's right word for, let's hope, a short age.
— Strobe Talbott (@strobetalbott) August 3, 2014
#Switzerland has no plans to impose sanctions on #Russia and will remain neutral in the diplomatic row over #Ukraine http://t.co/Bz8xKvlLfD
— Just Hovens Greve (@JustHovensGreve) August 3, 2014
Here is the latest map of the situation in eastern Ukraine according to the National Defense and Security Council:
