This video purports to show "Russian military equipment" crossing a pontoon bridge near the Ukrainian border:
According to the Ukrainian military, the soldiers rtreted into Russian territory when they ran out of ammunition:
When shells began to reach a dolphinarium in the embattled Ukrainian city of Donetsk, several dolphins had to be moved to safer locations outside the rebel-controlled area. Two of them found a new home in Kharkiv, where the animals are kept in a stress-free environment so they can resume their performances in two weeks' time. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
The latest casualty figures from Ukraine's Security Council:
An Al-Jazeera correspondent gets detained at a separatist checkpoint:
This looks like it could be big:
Minsk chimes in on Ukraine's energy needs, as our news desk reports:
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that Minsk is ready to supply Ukraine with oil products.
Lukashenka's press service says the two presidents discussed the issue by telephone on August 4.
It said Lukashenka "stressed that Belarus understands the acuteness of this problem during the harvesting campaign and therefore, despite domestic needs, will assist Ukraine in ensuring its economy has oil products."
According to Lukashenka’s website, the Belarusian president also talked by phone with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev on August 2 about how to help normalize the situation in Ukraine.
Ukraine is conducting a military offensive against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Belarus and Kazakhstan are considered close allies of Russia as members of a Moscow-led customs union and the Eurasian Economic Union. (with Reuters)