Because it is worth re-upping:
Ahead of the release in less than an hour of the Dutch Safety Board's (Onderzoeksraad) preliminary report:
Liveuamap shares Twitter images of damage from alleged shelling overnight of Ukrainian troops near Debaltseve, which lies on a main road between Donetsk and Luhansk:
Overnight:
Among other things, Chilcote notes that a) FinnAir was one of the biggest losers of Russian threats of countersanctions, from a share-price perspective, hinting at Helsinki's "cold feet"; b) Gazprom had been on the leaked list of sanctions targets, but the final list includes only Gazprom Neft, the company's oil and refining arm; and c) around 3,000 Ukrainians were killed in the entirety of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and an equal number have already been killed in this six-month-old conflict in eastern Ukraine.
All eyes are on the Dutch Safety Board website, which is expected to publish its "preliminary report" on the in less than two hours (8:00 a.m. UTC).
Here's our newsroom curtain-raiser:
Dutch Experts To Release Preliminary Report On MH17
