Kiev’s bloody eastern Ukraine campaign
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Russia delivered humanitarian aid to the besieged city of Lugansk as fighting between the Ukrainian army and self-defense forces continues in eastern Ukraine. The conflict has claimed the lives of at least 2,000 people and displaced over 300,000.
VIDEO: Ukraine: Russian aid handed out in Lugansk
Tuesday, August 26
15:25 GMT:
The latest UN figures show that the number of killed and wounded in the armed conflict in Ukraine is steadily increasing, the Russia Foreign Ministry said.
“As of August 19, we’re talking about 2,249 people (including at least 23 children) and 6,033 others wounded (including at least 38 children),” the ministry said in a statement.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the number of internally displaced people in Ukraine has increased to 190,000 (from 156,000 on August 13), the statement said.
As for Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Russia, their numbers rose from 188,000 to 207,000 in the last two weeks, the ministry added.
09:49 GMT:
Russian customs officials from the Veselo-Voznesensk checkpoint have been evacuated due to a shooting in Ukraine.
“Heavy shooting started near the Ukrainian checkpoint Novoazovsk. There was a threat that the ammunition would reach Russian territory. The customs officials have been evacuated to a safe place,” Ryan Fakurshin from the press service of Russian Southern Customs Department told ITAR-TASS.
08:51 GMT:
Night time shelling by the Ukrainian military has reached the Petrovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, resulting in three deaths, according to the city council.
08:49 GMT:
Today ten self-defense troops have been killed and several dozen others injured.
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08:36 GMT:
Presidents Putin and Poroshenko could be set to discuss the situation with the recent abduction of Russian news agency journalists in the south-east of Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.
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