Ukraine's Cabinet ordered the Infrastructure Ministry, as well as Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytsky, and Chernivtsi Regional State Administrations to allocate UAH 100,000 in aid each family.
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Donbas has uploaded on its YouTube channel a footage showing a night-hours shelling near the Donetsk filtering station.
A ransom payment of up to $1 billion to Iranian and al-Qaeda-linked forces in Syria may have been the tipping point for Qatari-Gulf Arab relations, AOL.com reported citing the Financial Times.
Pro-Russian militants include in their requirements for the exchange of Ukrainian hostages the demand for the release of former [Yanukovych era police task force] Berkut officers, terrorists and murderers, Ukraine's humanitarian envoy in the Trilateral Contact Group for the peaceful settlement in Donbas, First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko said during her Parliament address, according to an UNIAN correspondent.