Here is today's situation map of eastern Ukraine by the National Security and Defense Council:
From the German news agency dpa:
DONETSK, Ukraine (dpa) -- Two drones arrived in Kyiv on Monday to help an international mission to monitor the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Coperation in Europe (OSCE) said.
The Austrian-made unmanned aerial vehicles will enhance the mission's monitoring capability, OSCE spokesman Michael Bociurkiw told dpa.
He added that a total of four drones had been ordered and that the vehicles would be operated by civilian experts from Vienna-based manufacturer Schiebel.
The OSCE, Europe's largest security watchdog, currently has some 200 unarmed monitors in Ukraine, many of whom are observing the cease-fire between government troops and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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From Reuters:
Germany and France will present a new proposal shortly under which their soldiers could participate in the monitoring of the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
The spokesman Martin Schaefer said the plan would be presented in the "next hours or days" but added: "One thing is clear. Before German and French soldiers or others are sent to participate in the civil monitoring mission of the OSCE in Ukraine, there are some political and legal questions that must be resolved."
He said one of these questions was the role of the Bundestag lower house of parliament in approving such a mission.