President Petro Poroshenko wants to raise the conscription age from 18 to 20, reports the RFE/RL Ukrainian Service. He guaranteed that recruits would not immediately be sent to Donbas.
“It has to be a formed person, who within one year maximum -- maybe less -- will learn military affairs in order to defend the homeland with weapons in hand if necessary. This person will be educated, trained, fired at,” said Poroshenko.
Here's a video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on the blockade at the de facto border with Crimea:
Hundreds of Crimean Tatars have blocked roads and prevented supplies from reaching Crimea via Ukraine. They want Ukrainian companies to stop trading with Crimea as a way to protest the peninsula's annexation by Russia last year.
Here is a map of the latest situation in the Donbas combat zone, issued by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (click image to enlarge):
