This ends our live blogging for October 26. Be sure to check in tomorrow for our continuing coverage.
EU court overturns asset freeze on Yanukovych aide:
An EU court has ruled that the bloc had been wrong to freeze the assets of a former adviser to ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
The EU placed Andriy Portnov for a year from March 2014 on a blacklist of individuals suspected of stealing Ukrainian public funds before Yanukovych was brought down by street protests.
The EU's General Court said on October 26 that Portnov's inclusion on the list was based solely on a letter from the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office that an investigation into Portnov and others had shown a sizeable misappropriation of state funds and their illegal transfer out of Ukraine.
The letter "fails to provide any details concerning either the facts alleged against Mr. Portnov or his responsibility in that regard," the Luxembourg-based judges argued.
The ruling can be appealed within two months before the European Court of Justice. (Reuters, dpa)
Separatists say they've expelled 2 monitors, OSCE denies it:
Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine say they have expelled two OSCE monitors, but the organization denies the allegation.
A separatist leader in the Luhansk region, Vasily Nikitin, said on October 26 that the two monitors had "violated the Minsk agreements" aimed at ending the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
An unidentified official in Luhansk said the monitors were asked to leave last week.
But the deputy chief of the OSCE's Special Monitoring Mission, Alexander Hug, said in a statement that "no monitors have been removed" from the Luhansk region.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the cease-fire deal signed in Minsk in February and for coordinating peace talks between Kyiv and both Moscow and Ukraine's separatists.
Fighting between government forces and separatists has killed more than 7,900 people in eastern Ukraine since April 2014. (AFP, Interfax)