Army units of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) fought their way to the republic’s state border with the Russian Federation and took control of the Marinovka checkpoint, the DPR reported on Twitter on Saturday. As stated in the message, the Marinovka checkpoint and the adjacent territory of Russia are under constant shelling by the Ukrainian army. According to the “militia,” they are holding positions near the checkpoint.

The European Union “has finally caught the eye of Washington and Kiev fairy tales regarding the events taking place in Ukraine, depriving itself of an alternative, and objective, source of information,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, commenting on the European Union’s decision to impose additional sanctions against Russia.

In Ukraine, the mayor of the city of Kremenchug in the Poltava region, Oleg Babaev, was shot in the chest, the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine for the Poltava region reported on Saturday . The murder occurred at about 10 o'clock in the morning in the Poltava region, on Sumskaya street, Avtozavodsky district of the city. As a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti , it is too early to talk about versions and motives of the crime.

photo ITAR-TASS 15 people and 18 companies and organizations were added to the EU “black list” The European Union included 15 people in the sanctions list adopted in connection with the situation in Ukraine, including the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Mikhail Fradkov, the Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Washington holds Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for the downing of a Boeing 777 passenger plane shot down over a combat zone in eastern Ukraine, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a briefing on Friday. A transcript of the briefing was published on the White House website. “We know that the Malaysia Airlines airliner was shot down by a missile.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called “slander” the statements of White House spokesman Josh Earnest that Russia and President Putin personally are to blame for the crash over Ukraine of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing plane with 300 passengers on board.

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who fell under EU sanctions, announced the creation of his own sanctions list, which included US President Barack Obama and the current leadership of the EU.

In Moscow on Arbat at 12:00 on Saturday, a campaign began near the building of the Vakhtangov Theater calling for no smoking on this pedestrian street, Interfax reports . Anti-smoking social advertising banners were placed near the event site.

A passenger bus traveling along the Nizhny Novgorod-Tuapse route collided with a car in the city of Chaplygin, Lipetsk region, on Saturday at about 2:00 a.m. Moscow time, after which it crashed into a residential building, the reported . regional emergency department Rescuers arrived at the scene of the accident. No one was injured in the accident, but as a result of the accident, the gas pipeline was damaged - several dozen private houses were left without gas for a while.

Experts from the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali have discovered the second recorder of the crashed Air Algerie passenger jet, the Associated Press reported on Saturday , citing a source in the mission. On July 25, UN specialists arrived at the crash site 100 km from the city of Gao. They expressed hope that the recorder would help establish the cause of the tragedy.