From our newsroom:
The mayor office in eastern Ukraine's rebel-held city of Donetsk says a cease-fire between pro-Russian separatists and government forces has been violated in the city, which is the pro-Russian militants' main stronghold.
The mayor's office reported two attacks, one late on September 23 and another in the early hours of September 24. In one of them, a mortar shell hit an apartment block.
The RIA Novosti news agency quoted the rebels as saying that two people died in the attack but the mayor's office had no information about casualties.
The cease-fire between the rebels and Ukrainian troops has largely held since both parties agreed to it on September 5.
At talks last weekend, both sides agreed to pull back heavy artillery, setting up a buffer zone. Rebels said September 24 they were implementing this agreement as well as the Ukrainians.
Based on reporting by AP and Interfax
A lawyer for Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko says Russian authorities holding her in pretrial detention have moved her from her "Voronezh-3" prison in Rostov, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports.
The lawyer, Mark Feygin, says she was moved on Monday but that her relocation became known only this morning:
A later tweet said stationery suggested she'd been taken to the "'Lefortovo,' or 'Printers' (female No. 6)" prison:
Senior Lieutenant Savchenko, 33, has been indicted in Russia for her alleged complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists on June 17 near Luhansk during the Ukrainian Army's offensive against the rebels.
Ukrainian Consul Hennadiy Breskalenko was allowed to meet with Savchenko for the first time on July 16 at the detention center, in the southwestern Russian city of Voronezh.
She told Breskalenko that she'd been captured near Luhansk by pro-Russian separatists and smuggled -- handcuffed and with a sack over her head -- across the border and handed over to Russian authorities.
EuroMaidanPR citing the latest military status report from pro-Kyiv blogger Dmitry Tymchuk:
Russian authorities cite the need for careful adherence to the law in a case in which the defendant, an active-duty foreign servicewoman, was reportedly abducted at gunpoint by client insurrectionists, mistreated, smuggled illegally across an international border to be handed over to a foreign government, and denied counsel and consular access, before being put on trial under Russian law for an alleged offense on foreign soil.
From Interfax:
The Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko is to undergo a psychiatric examination as part of a criminal inquiry into the killing of Russian journalists, Russian Investigative Committee (RIC) spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax, when asked to comment on such reports.
"Savchenko who is charged under Article 105 (murder) of the Russian Criminal Code is to undergo a psychiatric examination as part of the criminal inquiry. This is a standard procedure and mandatory requirement of Russian criminal proceedings legislation (Article 196 of the Russian Criminal Proceedings Code) in cases where a person is charged with a very serious crime," Markin said.
"Savchenko and her defense lawyer have been duly informed of the order to undergo an in-hospital psychiatric examination that will be conducted in Moscow," the RIC spokesman said.
From ITAR-TASS. I believe the sources for the claim of the mass grave are pro-Russian separatists:
The Russian Investigative Committee will look into the mass burial discovered at a warehouse of the Donetsk Kommunar mine.
"Information about the killing of citizens whose bodies have been found in a mass grave near Donetsk will be verified by the Main Investigative Department of the Russian Investigative Committee as a part of the criminal inquiry into the use of prohibited means and methods of war against the civilian population in south-eastern Ukraine," Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Wednesday.