National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov visits Ukrainian troops in Donbas:
"153 attacks on our positions during one day is actual warfare," he said in a commentary on the video.
Russia adds four countries to food-import ban, threatens Ukraine:
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said that four countries have been added to its import ban list for foreign food.
He also threatened on August 13 that Ukrainian products would be added to the Russian blacklist if Kyiv implemented the economic parts of its Association Agreement with the European Union.
Medvedev named the four additional countries as Albania, Montenegro, Iceland, and Lichtenstein.
He said Ukraine would be added at the start of 2016 unless Kyiv reached a settlement with Moscow that circumvents the economic regulations in Ukraine's trade accord with the EU.
The ban has already made it illegal for Russians to import food from the United States, Canada, Australia, and the European Union.
It was imposed by the Kremlin in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. and EU sanctions over Russia's invasion and illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and the Kremlin's support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. (Reuters, AP, AFP, Interfax, TASS)
For almost a year, areas of eastern Ukraine under the control of Russia-backed separatists have been cut off from the rest of the country. The economic price is enormous. Much of Ukraine's 17 percent fall in GDP is due to the collapse in economic activity in these areas. At the market in Luhansk, money is scarce and prices are soaring. The common refrain: ''Somehow, we're surviving." (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Russian TV 'staged battles' at Donetsk airport:
Russian pro-Kremlin website LifeNews was staging battles during the fight for Donetsk airport, a Ukrainian fighter has told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.
"I had the Internet on my phone, I watched how LifeNews was filming the 'capture' of the airport. In fact, they staged it," he said. "We then heard how they were shooting at each other and it turned out they were making a movie, as if they captured the airport."
Ihor arrived with his unit at the airport in October 2014 and spent two months there.
"Our orders were to keep the line at a certain direction," Ihor said. "If you see somebody, you have to shoot. If you don't -- don't shoot. Nobody was shooting just anywhere."
-- Anna Shamanska
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