Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

President Poroshenko relief...
...as newly appointed Prosecutor-General Vitaly Yarema (bottom) and outgoing acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsia (top right) congratulate newly appointed Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin after parliamentary voting on June 19.

Hromadske TV quotes Ukrainian security official in this report alleging that "Luhansk pseudorepublic" separatists tried to strong-arm miners from the Komsomolskaya mine into fighting for them.

Meanwhile, slightly quieter in Luhansk?

Re-upping our interactive map on the humanitarian situation -- where displaced persons are going. If it's unwieldy navigating this in the embed below, just click HERE for a full-page version.

Pretty wild. You might have to click to the pic to spot the individual that he's talking about. There's a resemblance, it's true.

Poroshenko's people say there's another diplomatic appointment on tap for outgoing acting Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya:

via @ChristopherJM

The Ukrainian Culture Ministry rejects the idea of a visit by Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill to Ukraine, saying it would be "undesirably provocative and political," according to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service.