Here's a news item from RFE/RL's Russian Service:
A group of ethnic Poles from Ukraine's conflict-torn eastern region of Donetsk has arrived in Poland.
The group, numbering 188, was met by Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo on their arrival from Ukraine in the northern town of Krolewo Malborskie late on November 23.
"Welcome home. We will do everything we can to make you feel safe in the country that is yours now," she told them.
The ethnic Poles, from Mariupol, a port city near separatist-held areas on the Sea of Azov, arrived aboard four planes.
They will be housed for the first six months at a health facility near the city of Olsztyn, where they will undergo intensive Polish language training.
It is the second group of ethnic Poles to leave Ukraine and return to Poland since the conflict erupted in eastern Ukraine in early 2014.
Here's today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):
Here's a Sentsov update from our news desk:
The Russian Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who was jailed in August for 20 years on terrorism charges, which he and international rights groups call politically motivated.
According to Russia’s state-owned TASS agency, the court on November 24 rejected an appeal brought by lawyers of Sentsov and co-defendant Oleksandr Kolchenko, an activist sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Sentsov, a native of Crimea who opposed Russia's March 2014 annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula, was arrested in May of that year on suspicion of planning the fire-bombings of pro-Russian organizations on the Black Sea peninsula.
A Russian court convicted him on multiple terrorism charges on August 25 and sentenced him to 20 years in a maximum-security prison.
Sentsov, 39, has denied all charges against him, saying that a "trial by occupiers cannot be fair by definition."
His lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, called the conviction of Sentsov by the North Caucasus District Military Court, located in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, "a hallmark of injustice and arbitrariness," TASS reported on November 24.