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Here's another update from our news desk:
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says the situation in eastern Ukraine has recently worsened and the country's security and territorial integrity are being threatened.
Poroshenko told a session of the National Security and Defense Council in Kyiv on November 11 that attempts by the Russian-backed separatists in parts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions to "foil the Minsk agreements" and to "provoke the Ukrainian military with acts of sabotage" are endangering national security.
Poroshenko's comments come on the same day that Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko reported the death of a soldier near the village of Hranitne, 50 kilometers south of the city of Donetsk.
Lysenko said five other Ukrainian soldiers were wounded after coming under fire from small arms and grenades in the past 24 hours.
He added that there were 21 cease-fire violations by the separatists registered by Ukrainian officials and that Kyiv forces had returned fire.
Separatist military officials have also reported attacks by Ukrainian troops in recent days.
A renewed cease-fire at the beginning of September was largely observed by both sides until recently as heavy weapons were withdrawn from many parts of the frontline.
"Russian occupation forces are doing everything to derail the peace plan.... And they can renew military actions at any moment," said Oleksandr Turchynov, the head of Ukraine's Security and Defense Council.
(TASS, Interfax, AFP, Kyiv Post)
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We'll start the Live Blog today with a few of the tweets that caught our eye overnight:
Video footage that apparently shows a Russian convoy in eastern Ukraine yesterday:
So, it seems the Ukrainian parliament has passed the LGBT antidiscrimination bill after much wrangling:
Here's some more information from our news desk on the passing of antidiscrimination rules concerning the LGBT community, among others:
Ukraine's parliament has voted for changes to the country's labor code that include protection against discrimination for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
The amendments prohibit any discrimination in the workplace on the basis of "race, color, political, religious and other beliefs, sex gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnic, social and foreign origin, age, health, disability, or suspected presence of HIV/AIDS, family and property status, family responsibilities, place of residence, or participation in a strike."
The legislation says: "The idea is that, if a person is working, we cannot discriminate” against them.
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that the protections for members of the LGBT community were adopted on a sixth vote, only after Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyrr Groisman announced that lawmakers "stand for family values and will never support gay marriage."
The adoption of the antidiscrimination rules is required by the European Union in a package of so-called "visa-free reforms."