Here is a map of the military situation in eastern Ukraine today, issued by Kyiv's National Security and Defense Council. (Click to enlarge):
Speaker of Swedish Parliament @UrbanAhlin, with peers from POL, IRL, LIT and DK, honouring people who died on Maidan. pic.twitter.com/Wn18iA7PpX
— A von Beckerath (@vBeckerath) October 10, 2014
Meanwhile, in Russia (from RFE/RL's news desk)...
Russia's State Duma is calling on the international community to investigate what it describes as "war crimes" committed during the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
In a nearly unanimous vote on October 10, the lower parliament house adopted a resolution urging the organizations including the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the Council of Europe to investigate what it says are mass graves discovered near the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
Last month, pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk said they had found two graves containing the bodies of some 400 people they said were victims of military operations by government forces.
Ukrainian officials denied the claim, saying they never had control of the site, and it has not been independently confirmed.
In September, Russian media cited what reports referred to as an OSCE expert as saying hundreds of bodies had been exhumed from mass graves in the Donetsk region, but the OSCE said the man cited had never worked for the organization.
The United Nations says at least 3,660 people had been killed since the conflict began in April.
(Interfax, TASS)
By the way, here's a link to a feature by RFE/RL's Claire Bigg on the bogus OSCE expert claiming he'd been at a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies.
At CIS summit Uzbek leader slams Petro Poroshenko for not coming: "It seems he just can't decide if it's beneficial to stay in CIS or leave"
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) October 10, 2014
The Hollywood Reporter: Documentary filmmakers equip #Ukraine's volunteers in struggle against pro-Russian insurgents http://t.co/M97h1k7HJ2
— Kyiv Post (@KyivPost) October 10, 2014
And, speaking of soccer, there also seems to have been a Ukraine-related kerfuffle on the terraces of the Sweden-Russia game in Stockholm last night. (Incidentally, the game finished 1-1)
Вчера в русском секторе в Швеции братья-шведы не дали петуху повесить тряпку террористической организации "#ДНР" #РФ pic.twitter.com/Xdv7Y5Hvan
— Новости Украины (@Dbnmjr) October 10, 2014
Some soccer-related developments from our news desk:
Police in Belarus have detained about 100 Ukrainian soccer fans after spectators at an international match chanted vulgar verses targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The majority of those detained were released later, but 12 Ukrainians were found guilty of hooliganism and jailed for five to 10 days, and 12 Belarusians were fined, on October 10.
The incident came the day before Putin's arrival in the Belarussian capital on October 10 for a meeting of leaders from the Russian-led Commonwealth of Independence States.
The anti-Putin chant has become a rallying cry for Ukrainians angered by Russian interference in their ex-Soviet state this year, since the ousting of a Kremlin-backed president and Kyiv's embrace of the West.
Ukrainian fans unfurled a giant banner in the blue-and-yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag and the words: "We will not allow anyone to rule our homeland."
Ukraine won the match 2-0.
(AFP, "Nasha Niva," football.ua)
We had a feature on this yesterday. Hardening attitudes to IDPs in Ukraine. There's also a handy infographic.
