Here's a Saakashvili update from RFE/RL's Christopher Miller in Kyiv:
Saakashvili Announces New Political Force, Calls For Early Ukraine Elections
KYIV -- Mikheil Saakashvili, a onetime Georgian president who resurrected his political career in nearby Ukraine, has announced the launch of a new Ukrainian political party and called for early elections just days after resigning his governor's post in Odesa.
Speaking to reporters in the Ukrainian capital on November 11, Saakashvili repeated accusations that rampant profiteering and obstacles to reform are hurting Ukraine, which remains divided two years after Russia seized Crimea and Moscow-backed separatists began fighting against Kyiv's authority.
"We will create a new broad political power, a platform of new forces, and our goal is to change the present, existing, so-called political elite, who are actually profiteers and social misfits," Saakashvili told a press conference.
He said the new party would be called Hvylia, or Wave, and added, "Our goal is for early parliamentary elections to be carried out as quickly as possible."
He again lashed out at Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a former schoolmate whom Saakashvili accused of sabotaging reform efforts in the Black Sea port region when Saakashvili unexpectedly quit the Odesa governorship on November 7.
Saakashvili said working with the president's ruling Petro Poroshenko Bloc Solidarity party was out of the question until it agreed on early elections.
Poroshenko accepted Saakashvili's resignation earlier this week and suggested that the latter's political ambitions in Ukraine were stoked by the thumping that Saakashvili's former party received in Georgian elections last month.
Saakashvili -- whose reforms in postcommunist Georgia following its so-called Rose Revolution in 2003 won widespread international praise -- said his party would refuse membership to anyone who has served in parliament for more than one term, which could exclude many in the political elite at the time of Ukraine's Euromaidan unrest in 2013-14.
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:
