The so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) has been quietly dismantled since the assassination of DNR leader Alexander Zakharchenko last year. It has been boxed up and sent to Moscow, from which it is currently more overtly ruled.
Campaigning has begun in unrecognized elections in November for the head of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic”.
In the previous reporting period, one Ukrainian soldier was killed and three were wounded.
The Ukrainian Border Guards accused the Russia-backed forces of using laser weaponry after yet another border guard suffered an eye injury, the fifth such incident.
Ten Russia-backed separatists were reportedly killed when their BTR ran over a mine.
Three children were killed and one was wounded by a mine near a checkpoint in Gorlovka, controlled by Russia-backed separatists.
Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced in Russia to 20 years of strict-regimen labor coloney, does not intend to end his hunger strike, which he has held for already 93 days now.
Three Ukrainian soldiers and four Russia-backed fighters were wounded in the previous two days.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 9 wounded in the last 48 hours; 1 civilian was killed and one wounded as well.
A family of four declared missing yesterday were found to have been killed when their vehicle went over a land mine.
