A few photos from police detaining more than a dozen people at an antiwar rally in Moscow today. It was said to have been attended by around 100 people:
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry just retweeted this UNIAN report suggesting what eastern Ukraine needs is "targeted humanitarian aid expressly consented to by Ukrainian authorities."
Highly dubious report from ITAR-TASS. Particularly given that the ICRC has admitted it has no idea what is in those Russian trucks, we'll regard it as Russian wishful thinking in the absence of confirmation from the Ukrainian side and the ICRC:
SOCHI, August 12. /ITAR-TASS/. Moscow has agreed with all of Kiev’s suggestions regarding the humanitarian mission to the south-east of Ukraine and corrected the convoy route, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
“We have agreed to the route that is comfortable to the Kiev authorities. We have agreed to have Ukrainian license plates on our trucks during their movement in Ukraine,” he said.
“We have agreed to take on not only representatives of the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] and the OSCE [Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe] aboard the trucks but also representatives of the Ukrainian authorities,” the minister said.
Another look at how the Ukrainian military sees the current situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine:
