Three Ukrainian servicemen were wounded over the past 24 hours in Donbas, said presidential military spokesman Andriy Lysenko. One man was wounded as a result of hostilities, while two others injured themselves on trip-wires.
According to Lysenko, yesterday fighting only took place in Donetsk Oblast on the Bakhmut highway and north of it.
At the same time, the "Donetsk People's Republic" said on its websites that the Ukrainian military violated the cease-fire regime 10 times on November 18, while the "Luhansk People's Republic" published no information about the military situation in the region.
Happening in Kyiv:
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
A Russian court in Donetsk has ordered a closed-door hearing in the questioning of Luhansk separatist leader Igor Plotnitsky in the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko. The prosecution says Plotnitsky is afraid for his life. Spectators have been ordered to leave the courtroom.
The court also forbade Savchenko’s lawyers to "retell his testimony word for word," Mark Feygin, one of the lawyers, tweeted.
A few minutes later he tweeted a photo of Plotnitsky in court.
Russia will introduce a food embargo on Ukraine starting from January 1, Russian Economic Development Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev said on Rossia 24 state TV channel.
"Since Ukraine joined sanctions against the Russian Federation -- economic and financial -- we decided to introduce...safeguard measures in the form of a food embargo. This decision simply has a deferred nature. It is deferred until January 1," he said.
According to Ulyukayev, it is probable that Russia "will have to unilaterally protect its market from uncontrolled access of goods through Ukraine’s customs territory, goods from third countries, and especially from the European Union."