The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry says "as of [the] evening of August 20, 2014 Ukrainian border and customs services did not start clearance procedures yet" on any of the Russian trucks in the stalled aid convoy. Some of those trucks were reported to have moved into the border zone yesterday.
Here's the rest of the Foreign Ministry's statement:
Ukrainian side will proceed with no delay with border and customs clearance as soon as it gets definitive confirmation by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) about its readiness to deliver the humanitarian aid to its destination. In particular, the ICRC who bears responsibility on all logistic aspects, including transportation, storage and distribution of the aid on the territory of Ukraine, is expected to get security guarantees for personnel and cargo. Such guarantees for the ICRC should be provided, first of all, by the terrorists groups controlled by Russia, as well as by Russia itself.
We proceed from necessity of synchronizing by the ICRC of all humanitarian aid supplies for civilian population of Luhansk region, including those provided by Ukrainian side in cooperation with other states and international institutions.
Our Russian Service has a report (in Russian) on the planned resettlement today of around 1,000 Ukrainian refugees from temporary shelter in Crimea to more permanent accommodations in Russia, which annexed Crimea in March. There are around 7,000 such refugees on the peninsula, the report says, with hundreds more fleeing the fighting in eastern Ukraine every day.
The Russian food-safety inspection agency says the surprise spot-checks of McDonald's restaurants will continue in the Krasnodar region, Reuters flashed, citing RIA Novosti. So that's Moscow, Sverdlovsk, and now Krasnodar.
This Moscow-based Twitter account (@shaveddinov in Russian) is taking the McDonald's closures seriously, listing the various local providers for McDonald's food. Here's one tweet that says "most of the buns for McDonald's in Russia are made by the East Balt bakery in Moscow."
This one quips: "When they came for Jean-Jacques I was silent, when they came for McDonald's..."
Former Pussy Rioter @tolokno (Nadya Tolokonnikova). "Try to explain to Americans or Europeans why closing McDonald's upsets you. They'll look at you like a lowlife :-)"
As Russia's economy falters:
An ITAR-TASS flash: Trucks with Russian humanitarian cargo start moving to Ukrainian border.
But unclear to me if by "to border" they mean beyond the no-man's zone that the eight trucks entered yesterday.
Ukrainian Finance Economy Minister Pavlo Sheremeta says he's resigning, casting a further pall on Kyiv's efforts to get the economy under control and meet its debts.
He added on Facebook that "So instead of another fight with yesterday's system, I decided to concentrate on working with the people who will create tomorrow's system."