Three soldiers reported killed in east:
Ukraine says three of its servicemen have been killed and seven wounded in fighting with Russia-backed separatists in the past 24 hours.
Military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said the fighting had taken place on the front line near the village of Zaytseve, some 50 kilometers north of the separatist stronghold of Donetsk.
Meanwhile, the separatists said shelling from the Ukrainian government side had hit Zaytseve and Donetsk suburbs.
More than 9,000 people have been killed in fighting between government forces and rebels in eastern Ukraine since April 2014, and a year-old cease-fire agreement has failed to completely stop the violence.
On February 14, the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Lamberto Zannier, told RFE/RL that fighting had flared up in eastern Ukraine and the humanitarian situation was "dire." (Reuters, Interfax)
Yatsenyuk faces possible vote of no confidence:
By RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is due to address parliament, where he faces the threat of a no-confidence vote
Yatsenyuk's speech on February 16 comes just hours after his coalition partners in President Petro Poroshenko's party announced they would vote that the government's work has been "unsatisfactory."
That raises the likelihood of a vote of no confidence against Yatsenyuk and the collapse of his government, setting the stage for fresh coalition talks and possible early parliamentary elections.
Yatsenyuk's other coalition partners -- the Fatherland party of Yulia Tymoshenko and the Self-Reliance party led by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyy – have signaled they could vote against Yatsenyuk in a no-confidence vote.
That would likely result in the 226 votes required to pass a no-confidence resolution.
The National Police have begun an investigation into threats directed at a female Ukrainian journalist.
"The woman received a text message with threats and contacted law enforcement," police said. "The Podilsk Police Investigation department launched a criminal investigation under article 345-1 (threats or violence against a journalist) of Ukraine’s Criminal Code. The article implies up to three years of imprisonment."
The name of the woman has not been disclosed, but on February 12 journalist Khrystyna Berdynskykh said on Facebook that she had received a text message from an unrecognized number with a direct threat. If she didn’t stop her investigations into the publicly-run Kyivgaz company, her "gravestone will be next to Gongadze’s," the text said.
Heorhiy Gongadze, an investigative Ukrainian journalist, was murdered in 2000.
At the time she wrote that she had contacted the police Podilsk police department.
Berdynskykh recently published an article in Novoye Vremya magazine about the alleged corruption of Yuriy Boyko, an official during Viktor Yanukovych's rule who serves as an MP now, and his son-in-law, who is involved in Kyivgaz.