From TASS on the "special status" legislation that reportedly came into force in Ukraine today:
Ukraine's law on a special status of Donbass (Donetsk and Lugansk regions) came into force on Saturday as it was published in the parliament's official newspaper Golos Ukrainy (Voice of Ukraine).
On October 16, the presidential website read Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has signed a law on a special status for Donbass.
"Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has signed the law 'On special procedure of local self-government in separate districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions'," the report said.
"Document No. 1680-VII defines a provisional procedure of organizing local self-rule and operation of local power bodies in separate districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions," it said.
Today's Ukrainian situation map, also from the National Security and Defense Council:
From Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council:
Our latest update on the Bogatenkova arrest, including information from our Russian Service and Sergei Krivenko's suggestion to radio station Govorit Moskva that the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights would look into her case:
