The Moscow-appointed prosecutor-general in Crimea, Natalia Poklonskaya, casts her vote in the Duma elections with her 11-year-old daughter:
Probably not a big deal in the general scheme of things, but interesting nonetheless. This video from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service appears to show an altercation between a pro-Ukrainian activist and a man who showed up at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv to vote in Duma elections. The activist was eventually arrested. (The video has no subtitles)
British pro-Russia correspondent Graham Phillips has been raising hackles again it seems...
From the Swedish foreign minister:
A tweet from Al-Jazeera's correspondent:
Good morning, we'll start the live blog this morning with a few of the things that caught our eye overnight:
First, a tweet from the OSCE's Representative of Freedom of the Media:
And then this from the spokeswoman for Ukraine's Foreign Ministry
And here's more on the Ukrainian captives who were freed by separatists yesterday, including one man who is blind and has had his arms amputated:
We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume again tomorrow morning, you can catch up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.