Poland's Gaz-System has resumed full natural-gas deliveries to Ukraine, ending the halt that began after an apparent reduction in gas coming to Poland from Russia, AP reports.
Poroshenko says hopes to secure 'special status' with US as non-NATO ally. -- AFP
The SCO members have issued a statement backing efforts to reach a full peace settlement in Ukraine.
Numbers are from "Kommersant":
Of the seven specialists at the morgue, five left when the fighting started, while the sixth drove over a mine on his way to work, and is now in hospital. That left Turevich to handle the influx of corpses on his own.
"I could have left, but then who would do this work?" he asks, before cutting the interview short. A van carrying 15 decaying bodies has just arrived....
Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev warns that "Russia could launch an attack from Crimea very soon."
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From Ukraine's president:
UKRAINIAN GOVT APPROVES PROPOSALS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AND DEFENSE
COUNCIL REGARDING APPLYING PERSONAL SANCTIONS TO RUSSIAN CITIZENS -- Interfax
Here was the quote from Poroshenko, at a business forum today in Kyiv, via AFP: "In a few days, I go to the United States, where we have a very important meeting with the U.S. Congress [and] the U.S. president.... We are also hoping in the very near future for a special status of a non-NATO member ally."
Today's situation map from the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council:
