Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

The fighting comes to Donetsk in earnest:

This video purports to show "Russian military equipment" crossing a pontoon bridge near the Ukrainian border:

According to the Ukrainian military, the soldiers rtreted into Russian territory when they ran out of ammunition:

When shells began to reach a dolphinarium in the embattled Ukrainian city of Donetsk, several dolphins had to be moved to safer locations outside the rebel-controlled area. Two of them found a new home in Kharkiv, where the animals are kept in a stress-free environment so they can resume their performances in two weeks' time. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)

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Donetsk Dolphins, War Evacuees

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Our Ukrainan Service has more on the humanitarian corridors here.

The latest casualty figures from Ukraine's Security Council:

An Al-Jazeera correspondent gets detained at a separatist checkpoint: