The Ukrainian military has begun offering six-month, short-term contracts with soldiers.
Military training taking place on Kharkiv's Freedom Square.
On the day that the English Premier League opens, teams from the self-proclaimed "People's Republics" in Donetsk and Luhansk have played a match, with the rebels from Donetsk prevailing 4-1.
Radio Svoboda with a report on how Crimea could return to Ukrainian control.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin writes that many people did not believe that the Mistrals would not be delivered to Russia but he says "we won together."
OSCE monitors recorded 21,309 people wearing camouflage cross the Russian-Ukrainian border from September 1, 2014 until August 4, 2015 at just two checkpoints.
Ukraine's SBU says it uncovered this car bomb contained in a chocolate box.