Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with a few tweets that caught our eye overnight.
A new armistice is supposed to have been in place since yesterday.
Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was born 205 years ago this weekend (March 9, 1814). He died on March 10, 1861.
We are now closing the live blog for today, but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.
Something worth keeping an eye on tomorrow, it seems:
Definitely an interesting way to spend six minutes. Typically, the 'g'/'h' differences are quite striking. Also, interesting to note that a number of Ukrainian words seem quite similar to those of their Czech and Slovak counterparts.
A little later than normal, but here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE.)
