Here is a map of the latest situation in the Donbas region today issued by Ukraine's Ministry of Defense (click image to enlarge):
Kyiv expects all European countries to ratify the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU by the end of 2015, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said.
"We expect that by the end of this year our European partners will ratify this agreement," he said.
The document was signed in March 2014, but every EU member state, as well as all the governing bodies of the EU, have to ratify it separately. The process continues in four more countries -- the Czech Republic, Belgium, Greece, and Cyprus.
Two Ukrainian fighters have been wounded over the past 24 hours in Donbas, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said..
"The only hotspot in Luhansk Oblast was Krymske village. A few provocations took place there. For example, enemy snipers were working," he said.
Lysenko added that the separatists opened fire a few times, but they didn’t use heavy artillery. At the same time, everything was quiet around Horlivka, Dzerzhynsk, Yasynuvata, Avdiyivka, and Donetsk airport.
According to separatists in Donetsk, Ukrainian forces have not violated the cease-fire regime over the past 24 hours. At the same time, separatists in Luhansk said that Ukrainian forces had opened fire at them at least 10 times.