07:36
10.4.2014
The standoff shows no signs of abating just yet in Donetsk or Luhansk:
07:35
10.4.2014
What is the "people's will" in Donetsk?
06:54
10.4.2014
Why it's not "The Ukraine":
05:55
10.4.2014
05:53
10.4.2014
Parsing the "pro-Russian protesters" occupying Donetsk administration building. Although it's not like these people look like the muscle involved.
05:49
10.4.2014
Slimming down in Kyiv.
05:47
10.4.2014
20:18
9.4.2014
Barring any late-breaking news, that ends our blogging for April 9.
18:57
9.4.2014
18:01
9.4.2014
RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it has captured a female Russian spy who was "carrying out a mission from the [Russian] secret services to destabilize the situation."
Maria Koleda, a woman in her early 20s, was apprehended on April 9 in southern Ukraine.
The SBU said Koleda confessed to shooting and wounding three people during pro-Kremlin protests.
The SBU also said Koleda informed her Russian "spymaster" that she and other activists had an "unlimited quantity" of explosives and she was sending a sabotage group to Donetsk.
People in Russia who know Koleda said she has changed her political views several times, once being a member of radical groups Other Russia and Avant Garde of Red Youth, then switching to a pro-Kremlin group, Young Russia.
Maria Koleda, a woman in her early 20s, was apprehended on April 9 in southern Ukraine.
The SBU said Koleda confessed to shooting and wounding three people during pro-Kremlin protests.
The SBU also said Koleda informed her Russian "spymaster" that she and other activists had an "unlimited quantity" of explosives and she was sending a sabotage group to Donetsk.
People in Russia who know Koleda said she has changed her political views several times, once being a member of radical groups Other Russia and Avant Garde of Red Youth, then switching to a pro-Kremlin group, Young Russia.