Construction work on the highway from Odesa to Reni will begin in late May:
Pro-Russian officials in Crimea have begun a daily train service from Sevastopol to Kerch:
President Petro Poroshenko has intstructed the Defense Ministry to accelerate the development of placing chaplains throughout the armed forces.
A new survey in Germany shows that some 62 percent of those polled favor either maintaining sanctions against Russia (46 percent) or toughening them (16 percent). Only 27 percent say they think the sanctions should be lifted. A total of 64 percent said they no longer see Putin's Russia as a "trustworthy partner."
The busts of Nobel laureates Ilya Mechnikov, Semen Kuznets and Lev Landau were unveiled today near the main building of Kharkiv National University.
Barring any major developments, that ends the live blogging for tonight.