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According to this report, Ukrainian forces have shot down a drone of the type used by Russia.
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In the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, the regional administration and other major government buildings remain under the control of pro-Russian separatists. Local journalists have reported that people are being held hostage and tortured in the buildings. A deputy of the district council, Dmytro Verzilov, visited the administration headquarters in an attempt to learn what was happening there. He told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service that he was seized by a group of men and thrown into a dungeon-like cellar full of other captives and released after several hours.
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More details from our news desk:
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says it has lost contact with a second team of observers in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.
The pan-European rights and security body said it could not get in touch with some members of its Luhansk-based team.
The OSCE lost contact with a first team of four civilian observers east of Donetsk on the evening of May 26.
The OSCE has so far not confirmed a claim by Aleksei Chmilenko, a leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, who said on May 30 that the team had been released after their documents were checked.
Chmilenko did not say when the monitors were released.
Separately, a spokesman for the separatists, Volodymyr Inohorodskikh, said on May 30 that the OSCE team had been prevented -- for their own safety -- from leaving overnight during a separatist-imposed curfew. (Reuters, dpa, and Interfax)
The pan-European rights and security body said it could not get in touch with some members of its Luhansk-based team.
The OSCE lost contact with a first team of four civilian observers east of Donetsk on the evening of May 26.
The OSCE has so far not confirmed a claim by Aleksei Chmilenko, a leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, who said on May 30 that the team had been released after their documents were checked.
Chmilenko did not say when the monitors were released.
Separately, a spokesman for the separatists, Volodymyr Inohorodskikh, said on May 30 that the OSCE team had been prevented -- for their own safety -- from leaving overnight during a separatist-imposed curfew. (Reuters, dpa, and Interfax)
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LATEST from our news desk:
The OSCE says it has lost contact with a second observer team in east Ukraine.
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Ukraine's foreign minister says another convoy of Russian arms stopped on the border.