We wrote about this yesterday. Here is a live stream of Poroshenko swearing in Saakashvili, the fiercely pro-Western former president of Georgia, as governor of Ukraine's southwestern Odesa region.
From our news desk:
Germany is planning to offer more aid for Ukrainian refugees who have been driven from their homes as a result of the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the announcement on May 30 on a visit to refugee camp in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk.
The German news agency dpa says to date, Germany has provided 10 million euros ($11 million) in aid to Ukraine's refugees.
An estimated 2 million people have fled the fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. Some 1.2 million have remained in Ukraine, while 800,000 have left the country.
Some Russian reax to the Saakashvili appointment:
“Saakashvili is Head of the Odessa Region," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Twitter. "When the circus comes to town... Poor Ukraine.”
"Saakashvili -- accused of numerous crimes against the Georgian people -- gets appointed governor of Odesa," Senior Russian Foreign Ministry official Konstantin Dolgov wrote on Twitter. "This is deeply symbolic of Kyiv's style of democracy."
Barring any major developments that ends the live blogging for today.