A Russian military officer and a colonel were
killed when their helicopter crashed in eastern Ukraine, with military aircraft monitoring the incident reporting an air strike on the crash site. The Ukrainian military says it is
investigating two separate incidents in which its
helicopters were shot down. The first incident, which killed the two officers and their helicopter was hit a "military building of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic". In the second incident, the Ukrainian military said it had shot down a helicopter with anti-aircraft weapons that came in close proximity to a Ukrainian military facility.
UKRAINE: A Ukrainian volunteer has been arrested over the burning of
another body in rebel-held parts of Ukraine. The body, the second of nine in just 10 days to be burned, was found Tuesday in a forest in central Donetsk oblast. A member of the Ukrainian volunteer rescue group that investigated the alleged incident found that the body has been burnt within the past four days