RUSSIA-UKRAINE-CRISIS-POLITICS

Ukrainian women sit beside a bus at the Donetsk-Izvarino border crossing, outside the Russian town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, some 30 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border on August 16, 2014. Diplomatic efforts to douse an international firestorm over claims that Ukraine's forces destroyed Russian military vehicles ratcheted up August 16 as Moscow demanded that Kiev allow its mammoth aid convoy to cross the volatile border. Some 280 trucks packed with what Russia claims is humanitarian aid waited for a third day some 30 kilometres (20 miles) from a rebel-held border post as Moscow and Kiev haggled over letting it across. AFPPHOTO / SERGEI VENYAVSKY (Photo credit should read SERGEI VENYAVSKY/AFP via Getty Images)