The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council repeats its assertion -- based in part on passports and other documents seized during the fighting -- that Russian regular troops have joined pro-Russian forces in the battle for Ilovaysk:
PM Yatsenyuk tells questioners in a Hromadske TV interview that Ukraine can't get by without Russian gas:
On Hromadske TV, Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says Russia has been planning its invasion "since 2004," when the Orange Revolution derailed Kremlin-backed candidate Viktor Yanukovych's fraud-based path to the presidency (in Ukrainian):
...and says, "Frankly, the invasion began six months ago":
"Yatsenyuk: Putin's goal -- to restore the Soviet Union":
This seems too short-sighted, but then again...
First Russian trucks have arrived in Luhansk: