Here's an RFE/RL video of the artist on Ukraine's front lines whom we featured in a photo gallery some weeks ago:
The Frontline Artist
Australian artist Guido van Helten completed a large-scale mural in Avdiyivka, an eastern Ukrainian town where fighting between Russia-backed separatists and government troops continues 2 1/2 years after the start of a conflict that has killed more than 9,600 people.
Here is today's map of the situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry:
We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back with all the latest developments tomorrow morning. Until then, you can catch up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.
Ukrainian Military Reports Sharp Increase In Fighting In East
By RFE/RL
The Ukrainian military and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have reported a sharp increase in fighting in the country's east in recent days.
The uptick in fighting in the Donbas region, where Ukrainian government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists, coincided with the U.S. election but also with the arrest of three suspected members of an alleged Ukrainian "saboteur group" in Russia-annexed Crimea.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had apprehended three people in the city of Sevastopol on November 9 that it described as "members of a sabotage-terrorist group from the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry."
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry rejected the FSB's claims, calling them a "fabrication."
After similar arrests in August, hostilities in the Donbas also spiked.
That month, Moscow said it thwarted an incursion into the Russian-controlled Crimean Peninsula by Ukrainian saboteurs and accused Kyiv of plotting "terror" in Crimea.