Barring any major developments, that ends the live blogging for today.
It is International Women's Day after all:
Despite the cease-fire, still fighting:
Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on March 8 that one Ukrainian serviceman has been killed and three wounded in fighting in separatist eastern territories in the past 24 hours, despite a ceasefire deal.
Lysenko said that pro-Russian rebels "continue to fire on government troop positions ... (but) the intensity of provocative attacks by rebels on Ukrainian positions fell significantly overnight."
On March 7 pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine said they had completed an agreed withdrawal of heavy weapons in line with recent cease-fire deals.
Lysenko said March 7 government forces are continuing to withdraw heavy weapons from the line of contact but are ready to return them to combat positions at any moment.
In cease-fire accords in September and February, the two sides agreed to form a buffer zone from 50 to 140 kilometers, depending on the range of the weapons.
That concludes our live blogging for Saturday, March 7. Follow our continuing coverage of events in Ukraine and throughout RFE/RL's broadcast region HERE.
Via TASS:
Security guarantees for OSCE monitors should be given both by militia and by Kiev, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told reporters on Saturday.
"The OSCE special Monitoring Mission is doing very important work, big work," he said. "What they need now is security guarantees."
"Of course, those guarantees should come both from the authorities in Kyiv, which are refraining, and from the militia," he said.