LATEST from our news desk on NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Kyiv visit:
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen is holding talks with Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv, amid heightened tensions over a Russian troop buildup along the Ukrainian border.
Rasmussen has met with Prime Minister Arseniy Yartsenyuk and parliament speaker Oleksandr Turchynov, and is also due to meet President Petro Poroshenko.
LATEST from our new desk on the fighting in eastern Ukraine:
Shelling of the rebel-held eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka has killed five people, local officials say.
City officials said another 10 people were injured when a shell exploded near a bus stop earlier on August 7.
Part of the city was without electricity and water after infrastructure was damaged in the shelling.
Horlivka is about 35 kilometers north of Donetsk, one of the two big remaining strongholds of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Earlier on August 7, Donetsk city authorities said three people were killed and five injured in overnight shelling as government forces continued their offensive against the separatists.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian media reported the self-styled prime minister of the separatists' self-declared Donetsk's People's Republic announced he was quitting his post.
Aleksandr Borodai has reportedly left Donetsk. (UNIAN, Interfax)
Ukraine has become the new home for a former Georgian police officer, who is fighting against pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region. Now a Ukrainian citizen, the soldier, who goes by the nickname "Doberman," compares the events in eastern Ukraine to Moscow's support for Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
LATEST from our news desk on NATO chief's visit to Kyiv:
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on August 7 vowed support for Ukraine in the face of Russian "aggression" and called on Moscow to pull back its troops from the border.
Rasmussen, speaking on a visit to Kyiv, called on Russia "to step back from the brink, step back from the border and not use peacekeeping as an excuse for war-making."
He said that Russia, instead of deescalating the conflict, continues to destabilize Ukraine, and that its support for pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces in the east grows "in scale and sophistication."
NATO said on August 6 that a Russian forces buildup near the Ukrainian border amounts to some 20,000 troops.
The alliance said Moscow could use the excuse of a humanitarian or peacekeeping mission to send them into Ukraine. (with Reuters, AFP)
The latest report by the OSCE's monitoring team in eastern Ukraine: