Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Alexander Wienerberger was recruited into the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I. In 1915, he was taken prisoner in Russia and ended up staying in the U.S.S.R. until 1934. Later, he worked as a chemical engineer specializing in explosives, and he established chemical factories in the Soviet Union. In 1933, he was assigned as technical director of a synthetic factory in Kharkiv and became witness to the man-made famine orchestrated by the Soviet government, the Holodomor. His photographs -- made with a Leica camera -- are some of about 100 images verified to be authentic portrayals of those harrowing events. The captions are based on the photographer's own notes.

Alexander Wienerberger was recruited into the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I. In 1915, he was taken prisoner in Russia and ended up staying in the U.S.S.R. until 1934. Later, he worked as a chemical engineer specializing in explosives, and he established chemical factories in the Soviet Union. In 1933, he was assigned as technical director of a synthetic factory in Kharkiv and became witness to the man-made famine orchestrated by the Soviet government, the Holodomor. His photographs -- made with a Leica camera -- are some of about 100 images verified to be authentic portrayals of those harrowing events. The captions are based on the photographer's own notes.

Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:

This ends our live blogging for November 28. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.

Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with this item that our news desk posted overnight:

Voters in Ukraine’s eastern city of Mariupol and the nearby town of Krasnoarmiisk are heading to the polling stations on November 29.

The two localities, which are on government-held territory in the turbulent Donetsk region, were supposed to participate in local elections last month.

But hundreds of polling stations there did not open for the vote because of an unspecified "mistake in the ballots," the Interior Ministry said at the time.

Much of the surrounding Donetsk region and the neighboring Luhansk region are controlled by Russian-backed separatists. The two self-declared republics have agreed that they would postpone their own elections until sometime next year.

Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and rebels in eastern Ukraine has killed more than 7,900 people since April 2014.

Here's another update from our news desk:

Ankara plans to turn over to Moscow the body of the pilot killed when Turkey shot down a Russian jet last week.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the pilot's body was brought to the border province of Hatay "through Turkey's initiatives" early on November 29 and will be flown back to Russia. He said the local Orthodox church in Hatay performed religious rites for the pilot.

Turkey shot down the plane on November 24 after it briefly entered its airspace from Syria, ignoring several warnings.

The two pilots parachuted out of the plane but were shot at by Syrian rebels on the ground. One of the pilots, Oleg Peshkov, died.

Turkey's action drew strong reaction from Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a series of sanctions against Turkey on November 28.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has refused Russian calls to apologize over the deadly incident, said on the same day that the episode had saddened him.

(Reuters, AFP, AP)