From 24today.net: Militants in eastern Ukraine shot dead Russian officer – intelligence
Situation on the frontline is extremely strained for both sides of the conflict
Donbas militants shot dead their commander – a regular officer of Russia's Armed Forces, Ukrainian military intelligence reported on Friday on its Facebook page.
According the report, on August 4 the servicemen of the reconnaissance company of the 11th Makiivka motorized rifle regiment refused to perform the order to conduct an offensive reconnaissance on the government-controlled territory.
In response to threats of summary execution on the spot, the Russian-backed militants reportedly shot and killed the reconnaissance commander of the regiment — a regular Russian military officer.
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (click to enlarge):
An excerpt:
KYIV, Ukraine -- One year ago on Saturday, a 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier named Daniel Kasyanenko died on a battlefield in eastern Ukraine.
He died alongside one of his friends, a fellow Ukrainian volunteer soldier, when a mortar fell on them. They were among 18 Ukrainian soldiers to die in a 10-day stretch from Aug. 1 to Aug. 10, 2015.
I first met Daniel two months before his death, while I was embedded with the Ukrainian army’s 93rd Brigade in a front-line village called Pisky, just outside the Donetsk airport. The morning I departed the front lines to return to Kyiv, I was supposed to meet Daniel for one last goodbye. I waited in the courtyard of a bullet-ridden, shrapnel-shredded, abandoned home, but he never showed up.
I assumed he had been delayed by some soldierly duty, and I didn’t think much of his missing my departure, other than feeling a vague sense of regret for not having one more chance to shake his hand and wish him well.
A day later, after I had returned to Kyiv, I got a slightly disjointed text from Daniel.