Today's map from Ukrainian military authorities:
Our Ukrainian Service will be live-streaming a march in the capital, Kyiv, by the nationalist Right Sector group.
Our Ukrainian Service reports on the ceremony in which more than 5,000 Ukrainian troops completed basic training at a military firing range near the western city of Lviv on Tuesday. The average age of the recruits, some of whom are volunteers while others have been mobilized, is 40. They will be sent for further training before eventually being deployed to the conflict zone.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius speaking to France Info radio, in Paris, today.
"We've told the Russians clearly that if there was an attack by separatists in the direction of Mariupol, things would be drastically altered, including in terms of sanctions."
"I very clearly tell my Russian colleague, Mr. [Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov, it would mean that at a European level the question of sanctions would be asked again."
In today's Daily Vertical, Brian Whitmore wonders what the West can do, faced with an unreliable negotiating partner like Vladimir Putin. And if it adopts more drastic countermeasures to Moscow's meddling in Ukraine, will they have any effect?
NTV says its reporter Andrei Grigoriev has been detained in Kyiv.