NATO to assist Ukraine in setting up Special Operations Forces:
A protest against Russian companies and Ukrainian companies with links to Russian firms was held in Odesa:
An exhibit in Prague on Russian aggression in Ukraine:
Two criminal gang leaders arrested in Crimea:
One wounded soldier reported by Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, no fatalities:
KYIV. Feb 7 (Interfax) - A Ukrainian serviceman suffered injuries in the army operation zone in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, but no one was killed, Ukrainian Presidential Administration spokesman for military matters Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.
"Hostile snipers have been active near Maryinka. One of our servicemen was injured in a provocation of the kind. We did not have other casualties," he said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Sunday.
The number of hostile attacks practically halved over the past day, 47 violations of the cease-fire were observed, yet tensions remained, Motuzyanyk said. "The enemy sporadically uses heavy weapons, for instance 120mm and 82mm mortars," the spokesman said.
The enemy staged provocations in the Donetsk sector, for instance, on the Svitlodarsk bulge, by use of grenade launchers and machine guns, and 14 mines were fired on Ukrainian positions near Horlivka, he said.
A video showing children making souvenirs for Ukrainian soldiers in eastern Ukraine:
Human rights activists are reminding those who signed the Minsk accords about the rarely mentioned human rights component of those agreements:
Separatist forces in eastern Ukraine claim shelling by government forces killed a man in the Donetsk region in this TASS report:
Monitors inspect death of man killed in western Donetsk
MOSCOW, February 7. /TASS/. Monitors of OSCE, the Joint Coordination
Center for Ceasefire Monitoring (JCCCM) and the defense ministry of the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) inspected the Trudovskiye
settlement in western Donetsk, where a local citizen was killed in the
shelling delivered by pro-Kiev military, the Donetsk News Agency reported
on Sunday referring to a source at the republic's defense authorities.
"OSCE, JCCCM and the DPR's defense ministry have inspected the place
where a man died in the Trudovskiye settlement," the source said. "At the
place, where he got injured, remain blood traces as well as traces from
many mine fragments near houses."
The source said, the man, born in 1962, died of a 82mm mine, which was
fired from positions of the Ukrainian military near the Maryinka town.
On Saturday, a civilian in the Trudovskiye settlement died of injuries
from a shelling, delivered from positions of pro-Kiev military.
New information on a blast at the Mejlis's office in Kherson.