Formerly Donbas-based billionaire Rinat Akhmetov tallies further losses:
The State Council [parliament] of Crimea has declared the local assets of Ukrtelecom, the major Ukrainian private telecommunication company belonging to Ukrainian tycoon Rinat Akhmetov, which held the monopoly over landline telephone services in the region, the republic's property at a session on Wednesday, an Interfax correspondent has reported.
Via Interfax:
Six people were killed as a shell hit a minibus in Donetsk on Wednesday morning, Viktor Kuchkovyi, the health minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's republic (DPR), told journalists."
Five civilians were killed [on the spot], and nine others were taken to a trauma center. Four were hospitalized, and one of them died right away, as his condition could not be stabilized," Kuchkovyi said.
The militia headquarters had reported earlier in the day that a stationary bus and a metallurgyplant had come under fire in Donetsk on Wednesday morning.
Uff.
Reiteration from the U.S. ambassador in Kyiv:
Some journalists' takes on today's talks: