Ukraine on July 12 stripped the military accreditation of a Russian reporter with an independent paper for allegedly revealing the position of Kyiv's forces in the separatist east. The SBU National Security Service said Yulia Polukhina of Novaya Gazeta - an outlet highly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin - used the paper's website to publish sensitive video coverage of the 26-month war.
Agence France-Presse: Ukraine bans Russian reporter from war zone
A Ukrainian Forces soldier fires a heavy machine gun during a battle with pro-Russian separatists at Avdiyivka, in Ukraine's Donetsk region on June 25, 2016.
