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The self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic claims that one civilian was wounded by Ukrainian shelling last night.

The Russian Ministry of Finance is proposing to slash support of small and medium business nearly in half.

Kiev reports 44 attacks yesterday.

The Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, announced the creation of 4 corridors out of the city his air force has spent months pulverizing.

President Vladimir Putin has made a number of personnel shuffles, removing the governor of Russian-occupied Sevastopol and putting a KGB general in charge of Kaliningrad Region bordering Baltics.

It’s now clear, Donald Trump would pursue policies that are very favorable to the Russian President, and very unfavorable toward key US allies in Eastern Europe.

Meanwhile the level of fighting in the east has dropped somewhat, and the leader of the Lugansk separatists has said he is prepared to send negotiators to talk to Nadiya Savchenko.

When Russian hackers were reported to have broken into the computers of the Democratic National Committee on June 14, the Russian media — state, pro-Kremlin and independent — covered the event, but briefly, and using only Western media reports

The evidence clearly implicates the Russian government in the hacking of the DNC, a clear attempt to influence November’s election. And it’s not the only one.

Ukrainian troops claim it was shot down by Russian-backed fighters.