Here's an item from our news desk on the anniversary of the bloodiest day of the Maidan. So much has happened since then, it's hard to believe the events described only occurred 12 months ago:
Hundreds of people have marched in Kyiv to honor the memory of demonstrators killed a year ago when the Euromaidan protests erupted in deadly clashes with security forces.
The violence killed more than 100 people, including 17 security officers, between February 18 and 21, 2014.
Another nine Euromaidan participants died in the weeks that preceded the clashes.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has designated February 20, the day most of the victims lost their lives, as an official day of remembrance.
Poroshenko is due to speak later in the day from Kyiv's Independence Square, where the protests took place.
Church bells will ring across the country and a minute of silence will be held in honor of the dead.
Flowers and candles will also be placed at the sites of the worst bloodshed.
A dozen foreign leaders, including European Council President Donald Tusk, are expected to attend another memorial event on February 22 in Kyiv.
(Interfax, TASS)
Here is the latest map of the military situation in the Donbas, issued by Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (click to enlarge):
Another update from RFE/RL's news desk:
The head of Ukraine's Security Services has accused a Russian presidential aid of supervising a commando of Russian snipers that targeted pro-European demonstrators in central Kyiv last year.
Valentyn Nalyvaychenko told Ukraine's 1+1 television channel that three groups of Russian Federal Security Service members visited Kyiv between November 2013 and February 2014 to organize efforts to disperse the protesters.
Nalyvaychenko said Vladislav Surkov, an influential aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was in charge of coordinating the operation.
More than 100 protesters and security officers were killed between February 18 and 21, 2014.
The protests eventually toppled pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Ukraine is holding a day of remembrance for the Euromaidan victims on February 20.
(1+1 television, zn.ua)