- Ukraine forces are hoping to retake the stronghold held for months by pro-Russia rebels in the key town in the north of Donetsk, Russia also is getting keener in the fight
- U.S and Ukraine have accused Moscow of the rebels as they have been moving heavy artillery across the border, the national security official of Ukraine opined that forces were outside Horlikva, just north of the regional centre of Donetsk
- Donbass the city of Donetsk has about 1 million people and is a centre for separatist uprising that has battled Ukrainian government forces for five months
- The highway north of Donetsk blocked by rebels and heard the sound of artillery and the explosions were towards the airport, an area frequently contested by Ukrainian forces and rebels
- The Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 which was shot is empty except for parents of one of the person who was killed in the accident, it has been nine days since the mishap occurred and due to security risks the investigation has not yet started
- The parents crossed the area held by pro-russians to visit the place of their daughter’s death, U.S. and Ukrainian officials say the plane was shot down by a missile from rebel territory, most likely by mistake
- Two more cargo planes carried the dead bodies to a forensic lab for identification, the planes took off from from Kharkiv, a government-controlled city where the bodies have been brought from the wreckage site in territory held by pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian government
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/kiev-forces-advance/article6253506.ece