!!!BREAKING!!!
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said under the agreement signed at the Minsk peace talks that Ukrainian border guards are supposed to restore control of Ukraine's border with Russia by the end of 2015.
He added that all foreign troops are to be withdrawn from Ukrainian territory and that all "hostages" are to be released within three weeks.
(Reuters/AFP/Interfax)
Nice cartoon illustrating this Moscow Times opinion piece:
Meanwhile, in Crimea...
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine -- A court in Crimea's capital, Simferopol, has prolonged the pretrial detention for a deputy chairman of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis.
A district court in Simferopol ruled on February 11 that Ahtem Ciygoz must stay in pretrial detention until May 19.
Ciygoz was arrested on January 29 for what investigators said was organizing "mass disorder" in the regional capital, Simferopol, last year.
He was sent to pretrial detention until February 19.
Another Crimean Tatar activist, Iskender Kantemirov, was placed in two-month pretrial detention on February 8 on the same charge.
Crimean Tatars and other pro-Ukrainian activists clashed with pro-Russian activists near the parliament on February 26 last year.
(From the Crimean Desk of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)