Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on the EU to move forward with proposed sanctions on Russia over the imprisonment of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko. Poroshenko told RFE/RL in Brussels that Savchenko's continued detention in Russia is a "brutal violation of national and international law."
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told RFE/RL in Brussels that Kyiv had completed the reforms needed to move forward on implementing visa-free travel to the European Union.
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):
In today's Daily Vertical, Brian Whitmore gives us his take on the issuance of "passports" in separatist-held Donetsk:
Our multimedia department have issued this video report on the Donetsk "passports:"
Russia-Backed Separatists Issue Passports In Donetsk
Separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region began handing out their own passports on March 16. Separatist leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko said that the document has been recognized by Russia and the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia.
