It seems the controversy over Ukraine's Eurovision entrant has now moved up a notch. This is how the BBC is reporting it:
Ukraine's entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest, Maruv, has been dropped in a row related to tensions between her country and Russia.
Maruv's song, Siren Song, won a public vote on Saturday, but the singer later fell out with the country's national broadcaster.
She was given 24 hours to sign a contract that temporarily barred her from playing in Russia.
Talks stalled on Monday and the broadcaster revoked Maruv's nomination.
The 27-year-old, whose name real name is Anna Korsun, said she was prepared to cancel her next tour of Russia, but that other stipulations in the contract amounted to "censorship".
Read the full BBC article here.
And here's a tweet from Odesa by the U.S. special representative for Ukraine with the Donald Cook in the background. (He's supposed to be meeting Ukrainian President Poroshenko later today.)
Video of the U.S. Navy's Donald Cook coming into Odesa: