The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the 22.5 and 20 year sentences imposed on the two Ukrainians despite testimony extracted under torture being retracted.
Roskomnadzor, the Russian state media supervision agency that serves as a state censor, is planning to block LinkedIn for not placing its servers with Russian customer data on Russian soil. There is some speculation that LinkedIn has been chosen first in retaliation for the arrest of Russian hacker Yevgeny Nikulin.
Kiev reports six Ukrainian soldiers wounded, but a fatality was reported yesterday by the Azov Regiment, and the Lugansk governor today reported another soldier wounded.
EU members decided at a summit last week to postpone new sanctions against Russia; today 5 non-EU members joined previous EU sanctions. Despite sanctions, Germany nearly doubled investments in Russia.
The “humanitarian pause” which took place last week in Aleppo is over and another one is not planned any time soon.
The Ukrainian military reports 35 attacks yesterday.
Putin aide Sergei Ivanov said to make overture to the US, but claims Russia didn’t hack DNC and doesn’t want Donald Trump to be president lack credibility.
The OSCE says their monitors are being blocked; Ukraine denies connection to six arrested in Transdneister
Grad rockets reportedly rock the Lugansk region; Ukraine forces a civilian airliner carrying an anti-Maidan blogger to return to Kiev
Yandex announced that media that is not registered with Roskomnadzor, the state media monitoring agency will see its stories disappear from the front page of Yandex News as well as regional and subject pages
