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Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.
Ukrainian servicemen ride in a tank close to the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk, a facility which has been the site of intense fighting for several weeks.

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11:23 12.6.2014
BuzzFeed's Mike Giglio has been spending time in Donetsk and has come back with a a pretty gripping dispatch on the volatile atmosphere that still prevails in the eastern city:
Donetsk — a relatively affluent city with riverside parks and a sparkling soccer stadium — seemed to proceed with normal life as Oleg drove past glass-walled office buildings. “It looks like there is no war. Everything is quiet — peaceful,” he said. “And we will see how that will change now.”

He pulled up to the last rebel checkpoint before the road to the airport became a no-man’s-land. Shirtless men in dusty jeans worked feverishly in the fading sunlight, digging and stacking sandbags, with an eye to the approaching night. Then the sedan passed into the silence of the edge of war; the Ukrainian army was hidden in the distance somewhere. Oleg stopped the car in front of a flatbed truck. Bullet holes pocked the windshield; shoes and clothing scraps were scattered around. The back was caked in blood. Some 30 rebels had died there, Oleg said, when the truck was ambushed en route to the airport by a Ukrainian RPG team. The only sound on the deserted highway came from a billboard flapping in the wind overhead. “This cannot go without punishment,” Oleg said.

A silver van pulled up suddenly, and a man in a black cap pointed a submachine gun from the driver’s side window. “Who are you?” he shouted. A young couple, holding hands, approached on the sidewalk about 100 yards away, taking slow and deliberate steps toward an apartment building set back in the trees. Bursts of gunfire echoed nearby. Then the sedan was back onto Donetsk’s busy streets. “And now there is no war. So it’s a feature of civil war,” Oleg said, meaning that sometimes people don’t recognize it until it’s right upon them. “Most people still don’t understand that this is war. But when there will be more victims and more death, they will stand up.”

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11:24 12.6.2014
11:25 12.6.2014
Typically, that Medvedev selfie has been getting all sorts of rough treatment on social media:
11:56 12.6.2014
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12:45 12.6.2014
Here's an update from our news desk:
The secretary-general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has visited a camp in Russia for refugees from the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Lamberto Zannier met with the refugees at a camp in Dmitriadovka, some 40 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, on June 12.

The Interfax news agency quoted him as saying the conflict in the east "is craziness which must be stopped."

He proposed that a roundtable conference be held between former Ukrainian Presidents Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, the current Ukrainian authorities, and representatives of the pro-Russian separatists.

On June 10, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered the creation of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to escape the eastern regions where government forces are fighting the separatists.

Authorities in the Rostov region, where the refugee camp is located, say there are nearly 4,000 refugees in the region and that the number continues to grow.
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13:15 12.6.2014
This would be a pretty major development, if confirmed. It is being reported that three Russian tanks crossed the border today and went into the Donbas region, before being intercepted by Ukrainian forces.
13:15 12.6.2014

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