An excerpt:
The attack was shocking for several reasons. Firstly, there had been a relatively effective ceasefire in effect for several days at the time. Fighting was at the lowest level seen since the beginning of the war. Secondly, Galuschenko was a respected operator and was a personal friend of the governor of the Lugansk region, Heorgiy Tuka. Photos of the charred and bullet-ridden pickup truck the group had been traveling in were quickly disseminated in Ukrainian media.
While some media outlets were swift to blame the killings on Russia-backed forces — a plausible assumption given the proximity of the incident to the front line, some commentators, including Yuriy Biryukov, an adviser to President Petro Poroshenko, suspected that the mobile group had been betrayed.
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry:
An interesting thought: