A woman carries a baby as she passes destroyed houses following what locals say was overnight shelling by Ukrainian forces in the eastern town of Slovyansk on June 9.
-- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says that Moscow and Kyiv have reached a "mutual understanding" on key parts of a plan proposed by President Petro Poroshenko for ending violence in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.
-- Reports say up to 20 armed gunmen were trying to seize property from a factory (Topaz) that makes communications and electronic-warfare equipment in the Donetsk region.
-- A deputy foreign minister says Russia will consider any expansion of NATO forces near its borders a "demonstration of hostile intentions" and "take the necessary political and military-technological measures to support our security."
-- A two-man crew for Russian Zvezda TV arrived in Moscow after being released from detention in Ukraine.
-- Serbian officials say their own work on the Russian-backed South Stream gas pipeline will have to be suspended after Bulgaria stopped construction of its portion based on EU and U.S. concerns.
-- Ukrainian security forces are reportedly still battling pro-Russian separatists in the east near Slovyansk and Donetsk.
*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv
Moscow will consider any expansion of NATO forces near its borders a "demonstration of hostile intentions."
In an interview published today by Interfax, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov says Russia “will have to take the necessary political and military-technological measures to support our security."
Titov says this approach extends to NATO forces that could be deployed on a rotational, rather than permanent, basis.
U.S. President Barack Obama has offered increased military support for NATO's Eastern and Central European members to ease their concern in the wake of Russia's threatening moves in Ukraine.
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Andrei Sushenkov and Anton Malishev, members of a Russian crew from Zvezda TV, talking via Rossia 24 TV upon their arrival in Moscow after they had been released from detention in Ukraine.
Sushenkov: "[We were held] with little oxygen to breath, [in a place] with only a tiny window and a guard who could periodically open and close it if he chose to inspect us. [The place was] under a blasting sun all the time. It was stifling hot in there."
Malishev: "It's not that we were tortured but some battery took place in terms of them inquiring if we are working for any kind of intelligence services or if we are so-called little Cossacks on a mission and stuff like that."
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The chairwoman of the U.S. Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, Representative Marcy Kaptur (Democrat-Ohio), says continued targeted sanctions against the Russian elite will prove effective in making Moscow change its Ukraine policy. The congresswoman spoke with RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service in Kyiv, where she attended the June 7 inauguration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
The latest report from the OSCE monitors in Ukraine. "Mostly calm" seems to be the main theme.
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Ukrainian volunteers have been risking their lives to deliver supplies to troops fighting separatists in the country's restive east. RFE/RL correspondent Levko Stek traveled with one of these "war couriers" and files this report: On The Road With Volunteers Supplying Ukrainian Troops
