Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (click to enlarge):
Tymoshenko announces presidential run:
By RFE/RL
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko says she plans to run for president in 2019, setting up a possible showdown with incumbent Petro Poroshenko.
In a video posted on her Facebook page on June 20, Tymoshenko said she will run for the presidency "not just to play an authoritarian game...but to lift Ukraine back on its feet."
"The presidential office for me is not a PlayStation, but a place to introduce real changes our country has been longing for," said Tymoshenko, who is leader of Ukraine's opposition Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.
Tymoshenko, 57, lost to pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 and to Poroshenko in 2014 after Yanukovych was driven from power and fled to Russia.
Tymoshenko, who was Ukraine's prime minister from 2007 to 2010, was jailed on embezzlement charges following her government's defeat by Yanukovych in 2010.
Her sentence was viewed by much of the international community as political in nature. She was released in February 2014 and later reelected to parliament.
According to recent polls, Tymoshenko and Poroshenko each have support of 14 to 16 percent of Ukrainian voters.