h/t to "The Interpreter" for highlighting this video, from the Ukrainian border forces, of a burning Ukrainian coast-guard patrol boat. It is reportedly one of two boats destroyed by Russian or pro-Russian forces near Mariupol.
The Ukrainian Education Ministry announced that it had issued a call for school directors to help personally to ensure that displaced students from Crimea, which was annexed in March, and the conflict-torn regions of Luhansk and Donetsk can continue their studies, our Ukrainian Service's Crimean unit reports.
Via ITAR-TASS:
A next session of the Contact Group on Ukraine is fixed for September 5, said the vice premier of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic who took part in the Monday
meeting.
No details of the almost four-hour-long talks on Monday have been disclosed.
"We exchanged documents, the Ukrainian side presented its view, while we presented ours," Andrei Purgin told reporters, adding that concrete matters would be discussed on September 5.
On September 1, Kyiv's School No. 309 admitted 218 children from families displaced from the country's embattled east. At a ceremony marking the start of the new school year, the school's director told the new students she admired their "courage and loyalty to Ukraine." The wife of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Maryna Poroshenko, who also attended the ceremony, said the children were all "part of the Ukrainian family." (By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
