Here is some footage from Hromadske TV apparently showing the aftermath today of some heavy shelling in Donetsk:
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has just issued a flurry of rather defiant tweets in English. Here are a few of them:
Crimean leader Mustafa Dzhemilev sparked an Internet meme last month when he responded to comments by Czech President Milos Zeman in April, who said the West should recognize the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula. Dzhemilev said: "I was jailed for 3 years, after publicly opposing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. And today, the Czech president asks me to accept the Russian annexation of Crimea."
Now his words have been translated into Czech and pasted on billboards in the Central European country, as you can see in this video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service (natural sound):
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