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From our news desk:
The UN refugee agency says 730,000 people have fled Ukraine for Russia during 2014 due to fighting in eastern Ukraine.
UNHCR's European director Vincent Cochetel said the UNHCR arrived at its estimate after deducting the number of people who would normally have crossed the border for trade or tourism.
Cochetel, speaking on August 5 in Geneva, said the figure includes 168,000 people who have fled Ukraine and applied to Russia's Migration Service.
Cochetel said a further 117,000 people are internally displaced in Ukraine, a number that is growing by about 1,200 per day.
Ukrainian government troops reportedly seized a separatist checkpoint on August 5 on the outskirts of Donetsk.
In Kyiv, defense officials said separatists opened fire on unarmed Ukrainian soldiers on August 5 as they returned to Ukraine from Russia where they briefly took shelter from fighting. (Reuters and ITAR-TASS)
From our news desk, more sanctions on Russia:
Switzerland has extended its sanctions over Ukraine's crisis by adding 26 more Russians and pro-Russian Ukrainians to the list.
Switzerland's Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research said on August 5 that the move was made because of Moscow's continued role in the ongoing Ukraine crisis.
The new additions to Switzerland's sanctions list mirror the names on a European Union blacklist last month and comes into effect as of August 5, at 6 p.m. local time.
The lists now include a total of 20 companies and 87 individuals -- such as the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, Intelligence Service chief Mikhail Fradkov, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, deputy head of the Security Council Rashid Nurgaliyev, and others.
The listed individuals and companies are banned from travelling to Switzerland or from transfering any assets from outside the EU to Swiss banks. (Interfax and ITAR-TASS)
A retired Ukrainian soldier decided to rejoin the army after he saw a television report about troops suffering losses against the separatist insurgency in the country's east. The 58-year-old sniper, who uses the nom de guerre "Klym," now fights alongside younger soldiers in the Donbas Battalion in the embattled Donetsk region. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Kyiv says Russian military buildup on border continues:
Ukraine's National Security Council says its forces continue to be under fire from Russia: