Ukraine Crisis Update: August 5, 2015
August 24, 2015 - Hugo Spaulding![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/Ukraine%20SITREP%20August%2005%20high%20_5.png?itok=kgcm5H78)
Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine continued to launch indirect fire and probing infantry attacks against Ukrainian forces in a similar pattern to recent weeks as negotiators from Kyiv, Moscow and the separatist “republics” convened in Minsk to discuss the failing February 2015 ‘Minsk II’ ceasefire agreement.