The latest report by the OSCE's monitoring team in eastern Ukraine:
LATEST from our news desk on NATO chief's visit to Kyiv:
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on August 7 vowed support for Ukraine in the face of Russian "aggression" and called on Moscow to pull back its troops from the border.
Rasmussen, speaking on a visit to Kyiv, called on Russia "to step back from the brink, step back from the border and not use peacekeeping as an excuse for war-making."
He said that Russia, instead of deescalating the conflict, continues to destabilize Ukraine, and that its support for pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces in the east grows "in scale and sophistication."
NATO said on August 6 that a Russian forces buildup near the Ukrainian border amounts to some 20,000 troops.
The alliance said Moscow could use the excuse of a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission to send them into Ukraine. (with Reuters, AFP)
Ukraine has become the new home for a former Georgian police officer, who is fighting against pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region. Now a Ukrainian citizen, the soldier, who goes by the nickname "Doberman," compares the events in eastern Ukraine to Moscow's support for Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
