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Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (ARCHIVE)

Follow all of the developments as they happen

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18:45 30.5.2015

Some Russian reax to the Saakashvili appointment:

“Saakashvili is Head of the Odessa Region," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Twitter. "When the circus comes to town... Poor Ukraine.”

"Saakashvili -- accused of numerous crimes against the Georgian people -- gets appointed governor of Odesa," Senior Russian Foreign Ministry official Konstantin Dolgov wrote on Twitter. "This is deeply symbolic of Kyiv's style of democracy."

19:50 30.5.2015

Barring any major developments that ends the live blogging for today.

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Here's a map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:

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