That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Saturday, September 26. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.
Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with some tweets that caught our eye overnight:
This Independent op-ed from a former U.K. ambassador to Moscow has plenty of people foaming at the mouth on Twitter:
There also appears to have been a bomb attack in Odesa in the early hours of the morning. Thankfully, there have been no reported casualties:
And here's some other stuff relevant to Ukraine:
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has issued this video of the aftermath of the blast in Odesa (natural sound):
Here are some details from our news desk on the explosion in Odesa last night:
A blast has occurred outside an office of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in the port city of Odesa.
The explosion took place in Yevreyskaya Street early on September 27.
Reports said an explosive device had been planted near the building's side entrance which was generally not used.
The blast shattered windows in nearby buildings.
There were no casualties reported in the incident.
The Interior Ministry said a criminal case was being launched into the eplosion.
(UNIAN, TASS, Interfax)
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone -- courtesy of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (click image to enlarge):
Media have been reporting how Pope Francis took the time to visit some families from war-torn Ukraine on his visit to the United States: