Live Blog: UN Backs Ukraine Integrity

The recovered records of Viktor Yanukovych continue to provide fresh revelations about his regime's massive monitoring of the Euromaidan movement that ousted him as Ukraine's president.

Natalia Sedletska of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, who has been working on the YanukovychLeaks project, writes that investigators have found a 100-page notebook documenting, in unstinting detail, the cars and drivers participating in Euromaidan's automotive wing, Automaidan.

In particular, the document provides a blow-by-blow account of the December 29 rally outside Yanukovych's Mezhyhirya estate, in which a convoy of some 1,000 automobiles packed with Maidan protesters lined up outside the presidential residence, stalled by a police roadblock.

It follows with concrete data about the cars' owners, as well as the brands, colors, years, number plates, and registration of all the cars involved. Nearly half of the names match up with lawyers' current lists of Maidan protesters who were later arrested on unrelated charges or otherwise subject to illegal persecution. Dozens of other Automaidan activists also had their cars set alight, although it is impossible to prove that it is connected to the secret Mezhyhirya dossier. In total, 129 cars went up in flames in the first 45 days of 2014.

Automaidan activists have yet to compile their own complete list of participants whose cars were set alight or bludgeoned by the Berkut riot police. Even so, at least 13 vehicles featured on a blacklist held by Yanukovych's personal bodyguard, Konstantyn Kobzar, belonged to Automaidan members.

No particular details were revealed about Automaidan's most well-known member, Dmytro Bulatov, who survived a brutal kidnapping ordeal during which his captors drove nails through his hands and severed off part of an ear. Bulatov has since been named the minister for youth and sport in the new Kyiv government. His abduction has yet to be properly investigated.

Watch more of Sedletska's findings in the Yanukovych papers HERE:

Ukraine says Russia's move to sink three of its own ships in a lake connected to the Black Sea may pose an environmental threat to the region.
The foreign ministry has sent a note of protest to Russia, saying whitish liquid has been leaking from the capsized vessel.

Also from our newsdesk:

A little addition to our earlier report that the Russian military is conducting exercises in it Southern Military District near Ukraine. The Defense Ministry now says it has ent six Su-27 jet fighters and three military transport planes to Belarus. It said it was responding to a request prompted by joint U.S.-Polish exercises in Poland.

Some of the Russian artists who have spoken against their country's actions in Crimea.

Here's RFE/RL Ukrainian Service video of the same Simferopol protest (which they're describing as a flash mob). The protesters were also demanding the release of abducted journalists and activists.