Four Ukrainian troops have been killed and 29 wounded since the cease-fire went into effect on September 5, according to Defense Ministry official Vitaliy Andronatiy, quoted by AFP and local media.
About one-third of Donbas region, Lutsenko says:
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.