Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Today's situational map from the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (in Ukrainian for the time being):

Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Kyiv's National Security and Defense Council, says fighting with pro-Russian rebels has left 18 soldiers dead over the past 24 hours. Fifty-four more soldiers have been wounded.

Here is a favorability chart from the Levada poll we cited earlier, with the USA showing a 74 percent unfavorable rating (the EU was at 60 percent unfavorable).

It is notable that Life News has expunged the pro-Kyiv views from an otherwise balanced Reuters video report from eastern Ukraine (which we ran below and here as "Donetsk Rebels Defiant, Population Divided As Offensive Draws Near").

The Life News version cuts away at the 1:15 mark, when a woman interrupts the Reuters interviewee calling President Petro Poroshenko "bloodthirsty" to defend him and the Ukrainian government. "You're not telling the truth," she interjects, arguing, "He has to protect his Ukraine. This is Ukrainian land. It's not true what you're saying."

Reuters:

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Donetsk Rebels Defiant, Population Divided As Offensive Draws Near

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And Life News: