The Ukrainian military reports 120 mm mortar shelling yesterday and this morning.
Yesterday, September 20, Furat Media, an ISIS affiliate, released a video plea allegedly of a captured agent of the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russia’s domestic intelligence agency.
Around twenty civilians and a Syrian Red Crescent director were killed in the attack west of Aleppo.
Yevgeny Zhilin, a Ukrainian critic of EuroMaidan and leader of the Oplot [Stronghold] organization in Kharkiv was murdered in a Moscow suburban cafe yesterday.
Not only has the head of the Syrian Red Crescent been killed by an airstrike, but Russian military drone footage shows his convoy before the attack
Not surprisingly, the ruling party, United Russia, has overwhelmingly prevailed with 76% of the State Duma; the Communist Party, Zhirinovsky’s party and Just Russia have far fewer seats. No opposition party has cleared the 5% threshold to enter parliament, but candidates from Rodina and Civic Platform as well as one independent have obtained seats in single-mandate districts.
No use of heavy weaponry was reported by either side.
One Ukrainian soldier died of wounds sustained yesterday, and another was wounded. President Petro Poroshenko began a trip to the US.
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