While fighting in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists has ground down lately into a war of slow attrition, tension between Moscow and Kyiv have been rising over diplomatic expulsions and unfulfilled conditions of a five-month-old peace plan.
Los Angeles Times: Ukraine-Russia tension rises over separatist powers, expulsions
A Ukrainian forces serviceman recharges cartridges during a battle with pro-Russian separatists near the village of Krymske in the Luhansk region on July 9, 2015.
