A Russian lawmaker has proposed declaring President Vladimir Putin to be king.
The Ukrainian community in the Swiss city of Basel held a march in support for the Russian-jailed pilot Savchenko and film director Sentsov.
President Poroshenko says that some 210,000 Ukrainians were mobilized into the armed services.
Ukraine Security Services (SBU) chief Vasyl Hrytsak says there are between 6,000 and 9,000 Russian troops permanently operating on Ukrainian territory and another 50,000 on the immediate border with Ukraine.
The first congress of the interregional organization "Union of Volunteers of the Donbas" was held.
Ukrainian forces are preparing to open a checkpoint on temporarily occupied territory in the Luhansk region (video):
De-Communization experts in Ukraine say that finding sites to dump Lenin statues and other communist-era stuff is the easiest part of the process.
Three Ukrainian naval cadets who were in Crimea when it was taken over by Russian forces have graduated from the Royal British Naval College.