That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Thursday, August 27. Check back here tomorrow morning for more of our continuing coverage.
Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with a handful of the more-interesting tweets that caught our eye overnight:
Here's a tweet linking a LifeNews interview that didn't quite go as planned. When Irish director Johnny O'Reilly was being asked about his film Moscow Never Sleeps, he unexpectedly gave a shout out to Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, who he said was jailed for political reasons: