Dmitry Tymchuk

No Serbian citizens in eastern Ukraine - MFA

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday that according to the available data, there are no Serbian citizens in eastern Ukraine.

All Serbian citizens who reported to the Serbian embassy in Kiev have left the unsafe zone and traveled to Serbia via Kiev, a statement added.

A Ukrainian naval officer was shot by a Russian soldier on the Crimean peninsula, Ukrainian Defense Ministry has claimed.

Ministry officials, as quoted by Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, said that a sailor had been preparing to leave Crimea, which recently joined the Russian Federation, when a Russian soldier fired at him on Sunday night.