Reports are surfacing of the death of a separatist leader:
You can find out more about the man in question here
Here's how the Russian news agency Interfax is reporting the apparent death of a separatist leader in eastern Ukraine:
MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - A car carrying Pavel Dryomov, a Cossack leader in the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's republic (LPR), has been blown up on a local motorway, Kostyantyn Knyryk, the leader of the News Front information center, told Interfax on Saturday.
"Preliminary findings indicate that a car carrying Luhansk Cossack commander Pavel Dryomov to his own wedding ceremony was blown up on the Pervomaisk-Stakhanov motorway," Knyryk said.
A source from the LPR people's militia told Interfax that Dryomov may have sustained fatal injuries in the attack. "Information on the Cossack commander's death is being verified. Preliminary findings indicate that he may have sustained fatal injuries," the source said.
Meanwhile, in Odesa:
Here's a nice video report about how an NGO is using puppets to help warn Ukrainian children about the dangers of undetonated explosives:
Some 168 children have been injured, and 65 killed, by mines and unexploded ordnance since the conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine in March 2014, according to UNICEF figures. Now, Swiss volunteers are taking a puppet show on a tour of schools and kindergartens to teach children the dangers. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):
