Good morning. We'll get the live blog rolling this morning with a few tweets that caught our eye overnight.
Also, ICYMI
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.
As you probably know, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talked by phone today.
Bound to be of interest to Ukraine-watchers Stateside:
Time now to point you in the direction of a new feature by Pete Baumgartner based on an interview by RFE/RL Russian Service correspondent Oleksandra Vagner:
No Occupancy: High Court Backs Czech Hotel Owner's Crimea Test For Russian Guests
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic -- Despite death threats, Tomas Krcmar says he doesn't regret denying rooms at his four-star Moravian hotel to Russians unless they acknowledge that Crimea belongs to Ukraine.
"I reacted emotionally to the annexation of Crimea," he told RFE/RL, in a reference to Russia's covert invasion and grab of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula in 2014. "When I made my decision [to ban Russians who didn't disclaim the annexation], I certainly did not expect that such a wave would arise...and never in my worst nightmare did I think this would last five years. But I'm glad [the controversy] happened."
Within a few weeks of putting a sign on the door barring all Russians from his four-story Brioni Boutique Hotel in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava in 2014, he was fined 50,000 crowns (about $2,170) by the Czech Trade Inspectorate for violating antidiscrimination laws.
He fought the verdict and a regional court agreed, canceling the fine.
Read more here.