Human Rights Watch reports on how pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine "have threatened medical staff, stolen and destroyed medical equipment and hospital furniture, and compromised the ability of civilian patients to receive treatment.... Insurgent forces have also expropriated ambulances and used them to transport active fighters." Read more here.
Largely as told by Michael McFaul:
That concludes our live blogging for Monday, August 4.
A Dutch plane carrying remains of more victims of the MH17 airliner tragedy has touched down in the Netherlands. The plane was also carrying personal belongings of some of the 298 passengers and crew who died that Ukrainian officials said had been kept in the rebel-held city of Donetsk for some time.
Interfax and other news outlets report that the head of PR for the separatist "Donetsk People's Republic" was arrested today as she tried to travel to "the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea," according to the Ukrainian National Security Service.
Olena Volodymyrivna Blokha was arrested yesterday on terrorism charges and taken to the capital, Kyiv.
Interfax also reports that a Ukrainian Cossack leader, Vladimir Mukhtarov, was arrested in Luhansk under similar terrorism legislation.