It seems there's been yet another altercation in the Ukrainian parliament. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service has this video of proceedings:
Politicians Fight In Ukrainian Parliament
Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Aleksey Goncharenko from the ruling coalition scuffled with the Opposition Bloc's Mykola Skoryk on September 23. The fight reportedly broke out when Goncharenko presented Skoryk with a pack of dried bread, hinting he would soon need it. Dried bread is common prison fare throughout the former Soviet space. Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko recently said he intends to strip Skoryk of his parliamentary immunity. The opposition politician has been accused of involvement in riots in Odesa in February 2014. (natural sound)
Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):
British Reporter's Diatribe At Ukrainian POW Rankles Kyiv
By Mike Eckel & Andy Heil
As Graham Phillips tells it, back in the late 1990s as a Dundee University dual major in philosophy and history and a thespian performing under the stage name Brandon Reed, he saw his "career either as journalism, or writing for the theater."
He appears, after stints in state-sector marketing and communications, publishing, and teaching, to have settled for both.
A British expat reporter and videographer who fancies himself a "truth speaker" out to redeem independent journalism in the fog of the Russia-backed war in eastern Ukraine, Phillips' critics describe him as a propagandist, plain and simple.
In his latest clip to have sparked outrage, Phillips uses his stilted Russian and two minutes of exclusive access (apparently granted by the separatists) to berate a badly disabled Ukrainian man moments before his handover to Kyiv authorities as part of a prisoner swap.
Subtitled in English, the video features Phillips climbing into a minivan marked with a red cross before Volodymyr Zhemchuhov is exchanged for several separatists:
Read the full story here.