Here is a live feed of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's press conference today in Kyiv (in Ukrainian):
Whomever designed the logo of #Poroshenko's 2020 strategy must be fired. The font, colors and overall style are 100% #Yanukovych. Oops
— Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) September 25, 2014
Het logo van Porosjenko's campagne voor Oekraïens EU-lidmaatschap tegen 2020. Alsof de EU dan een staartje krijgt. pic.twitter.com/RBYw5PvUkL
— Lien Verpoest (@LienVerpoest) September 25, 2014
Sanctions busting. Moldovan fruit exports to Belarus up by 24 times since Russia embargoed them... http://t.co/0GHZwWseLL
— Robert Coalson (@CoalsonR) September 25, 2014
Another Ukraine update from RFE/RL's news desk:
Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov has signed a lustration bill adopted by the parliament on September 16.
Under the law, up to one million public servants, including cabinet ministers, will be screened for loyalty to root out corrupt practices hanging over from the previous pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych's administration.
The law is expected to purge officials linked to the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's east and Russia's other structures, including intelligence.
Officials unable to explain their sources of income and assets will be banned from public office for five to 10 years.
After signing the document at a press conference in Kyiv today in the presence of journalists and public activists, Turchynov called on President Petro Poroshenko to sign the bill into the law by the end of the day.
(UNIAN, Reuters, Interfax)
Gas supplies from #Slovakia to #Ukraine reach almost upper limit of 27 million cubic meters a day http://t.co/M68krgMxSK
— Kyiv Post (@KyivPost) September 25, 2014
Activist: 10 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine sent to Orenburg, their discharge falsified for compensation reasons http://t.co/Ro9qHa7qH5
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) September 25, 2014
"Will Putin have incentive to move twrds peace if he can get all he wants by dragging out a “peace process” forever?" http://t.co/atoZXs54rz
— Simon Kruse (@crusoes) September 25, 2014
Very subtle. MT: @BBCSteveR: By the US embassy, Uncle Sam's milking Russia. Protest against western dairy companies pic.twitter.com/ejringF3YY
— Simon Kruse (@crusoes) September 25, 2014
Don't miss this FT piece on the dramatic rise of Russian military provocations in the Baltic countries: http://t.co/Nxr4RE2jZB
— Annabelle Chapman (@AB_Chapman) September 25, 2014
Here is the latest map of the situation in east Ukraine issued by Kyiv's National Security and Defense Council:
