More on the alleged suicide of a former separatist official in Luhansk:
An Interfax report says Gennady Tsypkalov, the former self-proclaimed "chairman of the Council of Ministers" in the Russia-backed part of Ukraine's Luhansk region, has committed suicide. Separatist representative Sergei Rakhno said on September 24 that Tsypkalov killed himself while in detention by the separatists as part of an investigation for his involvement of a coup attempt. Rakhno said Tsypkalov hanged himself after "obviously having realized the depth of his criminal actions."
Relatives of flight MH17 victims are demanding that the European Commission do more to investigate the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane that left 298 people dead when a missile brought the plane down as it flew over the Donbas region in 2014.
In a letter to EU foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini, the relatives said "298 people were brutally killed, and the investigations were clearly hindered."
A memorial to Romany victims of Nazism has been unveiled in Kyiv:
Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Hroysman and the country's agriculture minister have refuted a report by ukraina.ru that the government is going to sell land to European and U.S. companies or that it will raise the retirement age.
It's been a very slow day as far as Ukraine news goes. So that concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Friday, September 23, 2016. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage. Thanks for reading and take care.