We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.
An opinion piece:
It does sound like Ukraine exports a lot of snails:
Following up on our earlier post, here's some information on why Ukraine Today is shutting down (from their website):
Ukraine Today - international news project set up by commercial broadcaster 1+1 Media Group - is forced to cease its operations.
The project began in August 2014. Ukraine Today's main purpose was to counter information war waged on Ukraine by Russian propaganda media outlets following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The launch of Ukraine Today served more of a social purpose rather than business interests. At the time of our launch, there was no public equivalent which could provide the same function.
Last year, Ukraine's public service broadcaster launched its own international TV channel. Ukraine Today is confident that our project has fulfilled its mission.
You can read the entire statement here.
Not surprisingly, Ukraine gets more than a mention:
No idea why they're shutting down, but sad to see them go. We've used a fair bit of their content here over the past year or so.