We are now closing the live blog for today. Join us again tomorrow morning, but until then you can catch up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.
Good morning,
As we often do, we'll get the live blog rolling with a few tweets that caught our eye in the past few hours:
A tweet from the U.S. ambassador to the OSCE:
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):