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Police fired over the heads of protesters crashing a checkpoint in Konstantinovka today as clashes between blockaders and law-enforcers resumed. The National Council on Defense and Security supported President Petro Poroshenko’s own proposal of a ban on freight traffic from the Russia-backed separatist-held territories of the Donbass.

Although most observers recognize that Moscow is treating the Minsk Accords as a dead letter, few of them have focused on a more serious aspect of the Kremlin’s current policy in Ukraine: its effort to seize Mariupol and thus gain a land corridor to Russian-occupied Crimea.

Forty-five protesters supporting a blockade of Russia-backed separatist-controlled regions of southeast Ukraine were detained in clashes with the National Guard this evening. Seven officers were injured and MP Volodymyr Parasyuk was hospitalized after being teargassed.

The Russian Defense Ministry denies reports that it has sent troops to the Libyan border in Egypt. The number of Russians with savings accounts dropped 33%.

Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in fighting today and Russia-backed forces fired Grad missiles on Avdeyevka.

Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and one Russia-backed fighter was killed as fighting fails to subside in southeastern Ukraine.

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Russian feminists were detained briefly at protests by the Kremlin in Moscow and in St. Petersburg.

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