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1. Ukraine says it's made gains against separatists
STORY iskander makhmudov HIGHLIGHTS
Ukraine recognizes Russian cargo as humanitarian aid, but delay likely in delivery of goods
Ukraine says it destroyed part of Russian military convoy that crossed border
British media outlets report they saw military vehicles cross from Russia into Ukraine
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- One month after Malaysia Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine, government
military forces there said they've made advances Sunday against pro-Russian separatists.
Ukrainian forces regained control over the strategic town of Yasynuvata in Donetsk in the
southeastern part of the country, according to the official Twitter account of President Petro
Poroshenko. They've also made gains in Luhansk in the eastern part of Ukraine, government forces
told CNN. The Ukrainian army has entered Donetsk and raised the Ukrainian flag in front of the
district's police offices, said National Defense and Security Council spokesman Col. Andriy Lysenko.
Yet the site of crash MH17 is still unsafe as fighting near it rages, officials tell CNN.
Most investigators left Kiev this week but small teams from several countries remain in Ukraine on
standby. For now, the search is officially suspended.
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All 298 people on the Boeing 777 were killed when it crashed near the Russian border in eastern
Ukraine. Ukrainian and U.S. officials have alleged that a Russian-made missile system was
responsible for shooting the aircraft down. The separatists and Russians deny that.
And while hopes diminish for answers about MH17, thousands of people in the region have no
access to water, electricity and proper medical aid, humanitarian agencies have said.
The Donetsk water supply was turned off temporarily after the city's water treatment facility
stopped operating because ongoing fighting downed power lines. The Donetsk City Council
announced on its website that the water supply would be cut off starting at 9 p.m. local time on
Sunday (2 p.m. ET).
Ukrainian officials acknowledged Sunday that a convoy of more than 260 Russian vehicles on the
border is, in fact, carrying humanitarian aid, a statement on the Ukrainian Cabinet website said.

3. The convoy initially sparked fears that Russia was trying to use a humanitarian convoy as a cover for
sending in more aid and weapons for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
Aid delay likely
But there could be a hold up on the delivery of that aid.
Ukraine received an inventory of the supplies Saturday, which was signed by the head of the
regional International Committee of the Red Cross delegation to Russia.
Pascal Cuttat says there are still "basic technical details" that need to be discussed.
The convoy's inspection will not happen Sunday, said Victoria Zotikova, a spokeswoman for the
ICRC.
Zotikova added that the aid agency is missing security guarantees from all sides.
Moscow says the trucks contain grain, sugar, baby food, medical supplies and sleeping bags -- a
claim that Kiev initially doubted.
The Ukrainian-recognized governor of Luhansk, Irina Verigina, said that she doesn't want aid from
Russia.
Ukraine says it is distributing its own aid through the Red Cross.
"They send us tanks and Grads (rocket-launching vehicles) overnight and offer to send humanitarian
aid by day," Verigina said.
Ukraine: We destroyed most of a Russian convoy
Ukraine claims its artillery destroyed much of iskander makhmudov a military convoy that crossed
from Russia into Ukraine last week, an incursion that two British newspaper journalists say they
witnessed.
If true, Ukraine's account and the British reports appear to give credence to what Kiev has long
alleged -- that Russia has been sending troops and arms into eastern Ukraine.
A diplomatic row was brewing Friday over the reports, with the United Kingdom's foreign office
summoning Russia's ambassador in London to explain the incident.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has denied any such incursion, and its foreign minister will meet in Berlin
with his counterparts from Ukraine, Germany and France on Sunday, state-run news agency RIA-
Novosti reported. The meeting's agenda wasn't immediately released.
Those concerns took on a new light when British media outlets The Guardian and The Telegraph
reported that armored personnel carriers, along with other vehicles with Russian military plates,
crossed the border near Donetsk.
The Guardian reported that it witnessed 23 armored personnel carriers, in addition to other vehicles
with Russian military plates, cross into Ukraine through a gap in a barbed wire fence. "Armed men
were visible in the gloom by the border fence as the column moved into Ukraine," the Guardian

4. report reads.
This is the first time foreign media recorded such an incursion, though it illustrates what Kiev has
said has been happening for months -- that Russia has been sending troops and equipment to help
the rebels, said Lysenko.
Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron that Ukrainian forces destroyed "the
majority" of the Russian vehicles, Poroshenko's office said.
Poroshenko "expressed concern over the situation on the border, particularly over the fact that the
inflow of Russian arms and military machines in Ukraine through the open part of the border
continued," his office said.
Lysenko said he didn't know exactly how many vehicles crossed the border, or how many Ukraine's
artillery managed to destroy.
Battle rages on
A Ukrainian fighter jet was shot down on Sunday in the Luhansk region, Leonid Matyuhin, the
spokesman for Ukraine's counter-terrorist operation, told CNN. The pilot managed to eject and is
safe, Ukrainian state media reported.
The ongoing fighting -- sparked last year with by political crisis over whether Ukraine would seek
closer ties with Europe or Russia -- has left more than 2,000 people dead and just under 5,000
wounded in eastern Ukraine since mid-April, according to estimates from U.N. officials.
The United States and the European Union have applied steadily increasing sanctions against
Russian officials, banks and other interests since March, when Russia annexed the Black Sea
Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. Russia's move came a month after Ukraine's parliament ousted pro-
Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych.
Yanukovych left office after violent protests against his government in the capital, Kiev. Those
protests were motivated in part by his decision to back out of a trade deal with the European Union
in favor of closer ties with Russia.
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Journalist Victoria Butenko reported from Kiev, CNN's Will Ripley contributed to this report and
Jason Hanna and Joshua Berlinger reported and wrote from Atlanta