From Ukraine's president:
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev warns that "Russia could launch an attack from Crimea very soon."
h/t: @liveuamap
Of the seven specialists at the morgue, five left when the fighting started, while the sixth drove over a mine on his way to work, and is now in hospital. That left Turevich to handle the influx of corpses on his own.
"I could have left, but then who would do this work?" he asks, before cutting the interview short. A van carrying 15 decaying bodies has just arrived....
Numbers are from "Kommersant":
The SCO members have issued a statement backing efforts to reach a full peace settlement in Ukraine.
Poroshenko says hopes to secure 'special status' with US as non-NATO ally. -- AFP
Poland's Gaz-System has resumed full natural-gas deliveries to Ukraine, ending the halt that began after an apparent reduction in gas coming to Poland from Russia, AP reports.
From AP:
The chief Dutch prosecutor overseeing the criminal investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 says that the plane being shot down from the ground is the "most likely" scenario being probed by dozens of investigators.
Fred Westerbeke of the Dutch National Prosecutors Office told reporters Friday that the shooting-down scenario "is the one getting the most attention now" in the international criminal investigation into the July 17 downing of the Boeing 777 over eastern Ukraine.