LATEST: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia has informed Kyiv it plans to send another aid convoy to Ukraine, hopes there will be no undue delays.
From our news desk:
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia plans to send a second humanitarian aid convoy to Ukraine.
Lavrov told a news conference on August 25 that Russia had informed Ukraine of its intention and hoped for swift and smooth cooperation from Kyiv.
Russia drew condemnation from Kyiv and the West when it sent a huge convoy of trucks into Ukraine last week without the government's consent or a Red Cross escort.
Lavrov said he hoped the second convoy will be cleared for entry much faster.
He said the "humanitarian crisis continues" in eastern Ukraine, where living conditions have deteriorated amid fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian rebels, and that there is no time for delays.
Ukrainian officials had expressed concern the convoy that entered Ukraine last week could bring arms to the rebels or deliver Ukrainian defense-industry products back to Russia.
Lavrov said the trucks carried only aid and returned empty.
The Ukrainian filmmaker who was arrested in Crimea, Oleg Sentsov, is on trial in Russia:
LATEST: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he saw nothing humiliating in publicly parading Ukrainian POWs through the streets of Donetsk over the weekend.
A Strelkov comeback, starting a new front?
From our news desk: There are reports of clashes between Ukrainian forces and at least several dozen armored vehicles that crossed into Ukrainian territory from Russia close to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
From our news desk:
A Ukrainian official says a bodyguard of formerly prominent pro-Russian separatist figure Igor Strelkov has been detained.
Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, wrote on Facebook on August 24 that Strelkov's 34-year-old personal security guard was detained by special police in the Donetsk region town of Kostyantynivka on August 23.
Herashchenko said the guard, whom he named only as Aleksei, was charged with attempted murder.
Strelkov, whose real name is Igor Girkin, had pronounced himself defense minister of self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR).
He disappeared from view following reports on August 13 that he was severely wounded in fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Some DNR representatives denied those reports while others confirmed it.
On August 14, a pro-separatist website reported that Strelkov had resigned as defense minister in connection with a transfer to another post.