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The Verkhovna Rada will be dissolved and an early election will be appointed on Independence Day – August 24, adviser to the President Oleh Medvedev told Radio Liberty.

An infantry fighting vehicle of Russia's Pskov Airborne Division was seized in the battle near Lugutin, Lugansk Oblast, on August 20.

Head of the Ukrainian Customs Office Anatoli Makarenko has written it on Facebook.

The first Russian humanitarian aid truck has crossed the Russian border and is entering Ukraine.

Its spire has also been painted blue and yellow.

There are several dozen tanks, APCs and IFVs in the column – about 40 vehicles.

The two sides have not managed to reach a ceasefire agreement and the negotiations in Cairo have failed.

Corresponding decree 571 was published on the official website of the Russian President on August 18.

The police and employees of district administration interrogated over 1000 people including minors on in Shalisnki District, Chechnya, on the night of August 17.