Here's video from this morning of the Ukrainian flag flying over the monument in Moscow:
h/t: @MyroslovaPetsa
Photos of the Ukrainian flag that unidentified vandals raised above one of the Stalin-style skyscrapers on Moscow's Kotelnicheskaya Embankment overnight. A Moscow emergency services employee told Interfax that it was taken down this morning, about three hours after it was first noticed.
That concludes our live blogging for Tuesday, August 19.
Here's our latest rundown of news from Ukraine. You can also follow continued coverage HERE.
Putin, Poroshenko To Meet In Minsk; Ukraine Fighting Intense
Via our newsroom:
Ukraine has banned 14 Russian television channels accusing them of spreading war propaganda.
Among the channels Ukrainian authorities banned on August 19 were Russia Today and Life News.
Ukrainian Interior Ministry aide Anton Gerashchenko made the announcement on his Facebook site, saying the channels were taken off the air in Ukraine because they were "broadcasting propaganda of war and violence."
Kyiv has already banned some broadcasts of Russian television channels as the conflict in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces has grown worse.
Media freedom organizations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have called on Ukrainian authorities to exercise extreme caution when considering banning or censoring media and Internet outlets.
Based on reporting by Reuters and on Gerashchenko's Facebook page
From RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service correspondent Anna Shamanska and Glenn Kates in Prague:
How Russian State TV Tied Satanists To Ukraine's Leadership
Here's an excerpt:
[A Rossia 24 report says] Yatsenyuk is something that may be even worse: "a follower of Scientology," the controversial religious group that Russia has refused to recognize.
Except he's not. Despite popular online rumors that he is either a Scientologist or Jewish, Yatsenyuk identifies himself as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic -- a church that makes up 14 percent of Ukraine's population.
But perhaps for the purposes of the report it's a difference without a distinction.