Photos of Ukrainian soldiers making sushi have surfaced online.
"What happens when you mobilize a sushi chef," reads this tweet:
Hromadske TV has shared photos of fortifications built around the southeastern port city of Mariupol:
The secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, has accused Russia of trying to derail the peace process in Donbas by holding elections there.
"Triggering the mechanism of fake elections on the occupied territory is a defiant exit of the Russian Federation and their marionettes from the peace processes defined by the Minsk agreement," he said.
"Elections in particular regions of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts may happen only after Russian forces leave these territories and we renew control over the border," Turchynov added.
Today, self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko announced that local elections on the territory he controls will take place on October 18. In Ukraine, local elections are scheduled for October 25.
Russia has yet to comment on the statements made by Turchynov and Zakharchenko.
While on hunger strike in Russian prison, Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko wrote a book titled Strong Name Hope (Nadia means "hope" in Ukrainian). Savchenko's sister, Vira, said that Nadia was afraid she wouldn't survive and people would never learn the truth.
Today the book was presented in the Ukrainian parliament.
"The money that we will collect today, we will transfer to guys in Russian jails who don't have money for lawyers. Their relatives have to print T-shirts with their images and collect money that way," Vira said.
The Yustynian publishing house issued 10,000 copies of the book so far, but plans to issue more, as well as to publish it in a paperback.
Separatists plan elections on different dates than rest of Ukraine:
The self-proclaimed leader of Ukraine's breakaway Donetsk region, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, has signed a decree that schedules elections for local self-government bodies on October 18.
Elections in territory under the control of pro-government separatists in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk region are planned for November 1.
The scheduled dates do not coincide with elections scheduled in parts of Ukraine.
Ukrainian government officials in Kyiv have indicated that holding the votes on a different date than local elections in the rest of the country would be considered a violation of the Minsk peace agreements.
Denis Pushilin, the separatist Donetsk region's envoy to the so-called Contact Group on Ukraine's crisis, said on September 16 that the Minsk agreement calls on Kyiv to coordinate with separatist leaders about elections in eastern Ukraine.
He said the separatists decided on "yet another unilateral implementation of the Complex of Measures [for Fulfilment of the Minsk agreement]" because Kyiv has never coordinated on the issue.
Voting for representatives of other local self-government bodies in Ukraine are scheduled for October 25. (Interfax, Rossia 24)