A nice report from the ground in Crimea:
Here is today's map of the military situation in eastern Ukraine via the National Security and Defense Council:
Reactions to the cease-fire deal announced in Minsk are hardly all positive:
The southern city of Mariupol, which now finds itself on the front line, celebrates its 236th anniversary. Members of Ukrainian volunteer battalions vowed to defend the city at the event.
Latest Ukraine news:
Violence has been reported in eastern Ukraine, hours after a new deal was agreed in overnight talks in Minsk between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists.
The nine-point deal reached by representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the rebels, and the OSCE aims to expand on progress made when the parties signed a cease-fire deal on September 5.
New provisions include a requirement for the government and pro-Russian separatists to move heavy-caliber weapons back 15 kilometers, creating a 30-kilometer-wide buffer zone.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military said one soldier was killed as troops came under rebel attacks in the Debaltseve area in the Donetsk region.
In Donetsk, the largest rebel-held city, strong explosions occurred on September 20 at a munitions factory.
A local official, Ivan Prikhodko, said the explosions were triggered by an artillery shell, but it was not clear which side fired it. (Interfax, AFP, and UNIAN)
A video produced by Russian opposition parties attempting to prove Vladimir Putin's involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine (in Russian, with English subtitles):