LATEST: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said ahead of a NATO summit in Wales that "Russia is attacking Ukraine" and continuing to destabilize the situation in the eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire plan proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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After a week of intense fighting, Ukraine's National Guard ceded the village of Novosvitlivka, near Luhansk, to pro-Russian separatist forces. Video shot on Septermber 3 by RFE/RL correspondent Andrei Babitsky shows remains of Ukrainian armored vehicles scattered around the village and a school destroyed by artillery fire. (RFE/RL's Moldova Service)
Mourners gathered in the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk on September 3 to commemorate soldiers of the Dnipro volunteer battalion who were killed in August battling pro-Russian separatists in Ilovaysk, a town near Donetsk in the country's east. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
According to yesterday's map of the military situation in the east, Debaltseve looks likely to be cut off:
NATO's outgoing chief outlines goals for the summit in Wales:
The badges of Ukraine's volunteer battalions: