Our Ukrainian service with more on the statement by ex-President Leonid Kuchma, who was present in Belarus yesterday on Ukraine's behalf for the trilateral talks with Russia and the OSCE, suggesting 20 more of the soldiers detained by separatists during fighting in eastern Ukraine could be released under a deal reached by the so-called contact group.
Ukraine's Interior Ministry says two guardsmen policemen were found shot in the Donetsk region. (I can't get to the link, so unclear to me if these are the same two men reported here.)
No fresh starts here.
Also see our story on the bogus Tefft social-media accounts that have already arisen and/or been shut down: "Sham Twitter Feed Of U.S. 'Ambassador' To Russia Blocked."
People around the world are responding to Russia's ban on virtually all Polish fruit -- ostensibly for health and documentation violations but widely regarded as tit-for-tat over EU sanctions -- with #eatapples activism: