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NATO has issued updated a four-page "Fact Sheet" titled "Russia's accusations - setting the record straight" in which it challenges Moscow on:
1) the legitimacy of the government in Kyiv; 2) NATO's response to the Ukraine crisis; 3) the legality of the "so-called referendum in Crimea"; 4) NATO enlargement vis-a-vis Russian security; 5) the suggestion that NATO "wants to 'drag' Ukraine into NATO"; 6) the claim that NATO intended to base missiles and ships in Sevastopol; 7) an alleged pledge by NATO "not to enlarge or build infrastructure in Eastern Europe"; 8) claims that missile defense threatens Russia; 9) Russian "claims that the U.S. is disinterested in Europe and...not united"; and 10) NATO-Russia relations.
The Interpreter highlighted this YouTube video showing "Russian military vehicles...filmed on the move yesterday in the Russian town of Stary Oskol, in the Belgorod region."
Ukrainian military blogger Dmitry Tymchuk says there are "no fewer than 300" Russian military personnel on Ukrainian territory.
Our newsroom reports that Ukraine's consul has visited Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian military officer being held in Russia. Here's more:
The Russian agency monitoring penitentiaries said that Consul Hennadiy Breskalenko met with Savchenko, a senior lieutenant in the Ukrainian Air Force, in a detention center in the Russian city of Voronezh on July 16.
It took Breskalenko several days to get permission to see Savchenko.
Savchenko, 33, has been indicted in Russia for her alleged complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists last month near Luhansk.
The journalists were covering Ukraine's military offensive against pro-Russian separatists.
A court in Voronezh has ordered her held in pretrial detention until August 30.
Kyiv says Savchenko had been captured by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine and "illegally transferred" to Russia.
Russia's Investigative Committee insists Savchenko was detained within Russia.
Based on reporting by RIA Novosti and Interfax
ITAR-TASS quotes a Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council spokesman as saying that aerial missions have resumed. They had reportedly been suspended following the downing on July 14 of an AN-26 transport aircraft.
Separatists have also claimed to have shot down four Su-25 fighter jets over the past five days, including two today, although those claims have not been confirmed.