As @RolandOliphant puts it, this is "insane" (irresponsible, even?) REN TV reporting from the front lines of the battle for Ilovaysk by Viktoria Lukashova and her cameraman Stanislau Mukhin:
From correspondent Charles Recknagel:
Explainer: Moscow's Food War With West Could Hurt Russia Most
Ukrainian authorities say an Su-24M attack aircraft "returning from an assignment" was "shot down" near Novosvitlivka in Luhansk. "Pilots escaped," they add.
Our Russian Service is looking into this woman's possible identity and whether she is among those detained, and finally, whether in fact she is -- as it certainly appears -- on the painted "seven sisters" star where the flag was raised yesterday.
The Russian Defense Ministry dismisses that Ukrainian accusation as "sensational" and untrue, with a ministry spokesman adding that the next such "revelation" from Kyiv will be that "a Kalashnikov rifle or F-1 grenade will be captured allegedly with detailed personal diaries of Russian soldiers."
A vox pop from our correspondent in the Russian capital, Tom Balmforth:
Moscow's McDonald's Fans Not Lovin' Closure
