Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
Date Set For Kyiv Trial Of Alleged Russian Soldiers
A court in Kyiv has set the date for the trial of two alleged Russian soldiers detained in Ukraine's east.
A Kyiv court said on November 3 that the trial of Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev will start on November 10.
It also prolonged the two suspects' detention until January.
The pair deny charges of terrorism.
In a video published in May, Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev said they were on active duty with the Russian military in eastern Ukraine when they were captured on May 16.
Moscow says Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov were no longer employed by the state when they were captured.
Russia denies accusations by Kyiv and the West that it is providing weapons, training, and personnel to pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine who are involved in a conflict that has killed more than 7,900 people since April 2014.
Based on reporting by UNIAN and Interfax
Ukrainian Politician Released, Detained Again
Ukrainian authorities have detained the leader of Ukraine’s UKROP party, Hennadiy Korban, just hours after releasing him.
Ukraine's Security Service says Korban was detained on November 3 at the request of the Prosecutor-General's Office.
Some 500 of Korban's supporters rallied in front of the parliament building and pretrial detention center in Kyiv, demanding his immediate release.
Korban, 45, was initially detained on October 31 on suspicion of involvement in organized crime, embezzlement, and kidnapping.
He was released 72 hours later as prosecutors failed to issue an arrest warrant against him.
UKROP activists say Korban, former deputy governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, is being harassed for political reasons.
Korban's party was officially registered in September 2014.
Based on reporting by UNIAN and Interfax
Just in from AP:
Gov't forces, rebels in eastern Ukraine report fighting
MOSCOW (AP) -- Government and separatist forces in eastern Ukraine are both reporting renewed fighting.
The press office of the Ukrainian government operation there said on Tuesday that Russia-backed rebels shelled its positions outside the rebel stronghold of Donetsk throughout the night with grenade launchers. The rebel mouthpiece Donetsk News Agency accused government troops of attacking their positions there with tanks.
A truce between the rebels and Kiev, which was announced on Sept. 1, has largely held, although little progress has been achieved to bring about a political settlement to the military conflict that has claimed more than 8,000 lives since it began in April 2014.
Ukraine's top prosecutor 'escapes assassination':
A top Ukrainian prosecutor says unknown assailants have attempted to kill Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.
Deputy Prosecutor-General Anatoliy Matios said on November 3 that three bullets were shot at Shokin's office late on November 2 from a nearby building.
Bulletproof glass on the office windows saved Shokin's life, he said.
Matios added that the shots were aimed at Shokin's head and body.
Shokin was appointed by President Petro Poroshenko in February. He has faced accusations of stalling high-profile corruption cases against allies of former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was toppled by pro-European protests in February 2014.
In September, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, publicly accused the Prosecutor-General's Office of obstructing efforts to combat corruption and shielding its own employees from graft investigations. (UNIAN, Interfax)