Seizing on the "War on Western Food" meme:
Ukrainian military says 5 soldiers killed:
Do we want Russia to leave Donbas? Give back Crimea? Do we expect a regime change in Moscow? Or do we want Russia to start behaving “as a normal European country,” i.e. one that tries to base its influence on attraction rather than coercion? These things should be better thought through before the sanctions debate starts again at the end of the year, when the deadlines for fulfilling the Minsk agreement – to which the bulk of sanctions are linked – will expire, and Europe will need to decide whether the agreement has been implemented or not and if not, whose fault it is.
Russia continues its war on Western food:
It seems Ukraine is finally getting around to prosecuting Yanukovych (from RFE/RL's news desk):
Ukraine has subpoenaed fugitive former President Viktor Yanukovych to testify in a corruption investigation.
Ukraine's state-run newspaper Uryadoviy Kuryer (The Government's Courier) carried the text of the subpoena on August 6.
The subpoena states that Yanukovych is requested to arrive at the Prosecutor-General's Office in Kyiv on August 11 for questioning related to an investigation into crimes committed under Article 191 of the Criminal Code.
Article 191, Paragraph 5, of the code relates to the "misappropriation of property" and embezzlement of funds through the use of a public office to commit large-scale fraud.
Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin said on July 28 that the process of trying Yanukovych in absentia has begun.
Yanukovych fled Ukraine in late February 2014 amid violent pro-European mass protests and is currently residing in Russia, though his exact whereabouts is unknown.
He has been accused of using state funds to live luxuriously while president, as his presidential estate was discovered to have dozens of expensive vehicles, ornate furnishings, and a zoo on it after he fled. (Uryadoviy Kuryer, UNIAN)