Russia's ban on food import in one picture. pic.twitter.com/6DVMQYcEz1
— Yulia Bragina (@YuliaSkyNews) August 7, 2014
CORRECTION: Vesti (Rossiya 24) says Aleksandr Borodai is standing down and will be replaced by Aleksandr Zakharchenko of Oplot
— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) August 7, 2014
Borodai hasn't confirmed he's leaving himself. But he's giving a press conference later today
— Gabriel Gatehouse (@ggatehouse) August 7, 2014
The Ukrainian Security Service now says the pro-Russian separatists shot down MH17 by mistake. They actually meant to shoot down a Russian plane, so that Moscow would have an excuse to invade....
LATEST from our news desk, via our Moldovan Service:
Pro-Russian separatists in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester have reportedly put their security forces on alert because of what they say is a military threat from Ukraine and Moldova.
Transdniester's Tiras news agency said on August 7 that separatists expected unspecified military activity starting from August 26, the day before Moldova's independence day.
Moldovan authorities in response accused separatists of misinforming the public.
Tensions between Moldova and Transdniester have been on the rise since Moldova signed an Association Agreement in June with the European Union despite Russian opposition.
Moldova has asked Russia to withdraw its 1,500 troops stationed in Transdniester.
Ukraine has dug a ditch along the border with the separatist region fearing Russian troops stationed there may invade.
Transdniester declared independence from Moldova in 1990. The two sides fought a brief war in 1992 that ended when the Russian military intervened on the side of Transdniester. (With additional reporting by AP)
As promised, here's the latest RFE/RL Ukrainian Service video from Independence Square in Kyiv, where demonstrators clashed with city employees and armed guards today as workers tried to clear Euromaidan barricades and tents. Protesters set fire to piles of tires and threw bottles and bricks at the municipal workers, who eventually withdrew.
Here is today's map of the military situation in eastern Ukraine according to the National Security and Defense Council:
