A tweet from the U.K. ambassador to Kyiv:
This just in from our news desk:
Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak says Moscow will cut gas supplies to Ukraine for Kyiv's failure to pay up front for deliveries and might also suspend coal shipments to Ukraine in retaliation for a power blackout of Crimea.
Novak said on November 24 that the gas deliveries will be stopped "today or tomorrow due to the lack of advance payment by Ukraine," adding that Russia could retaliate "politically and economically" unless Kyiv restores electricity supplies to Crimea.
Russian-annexed Crimea continues to rely on emergency generators to meet its basic power needs after unknown saboteurs blew up electricity pylonssupplying the peninsula with electricity, in Ukraine's Kherson region over the weekend.
Pro-Ukrainian activists have so far prevented repairs to the damaged pylons and associated power lines.
The Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on November 23 that just one of the four damaged transmission towers could be repaired at the moment.
(Reuters, Interfax)
Here's a news item from RFE/RL's Russian Service:
A group of ethnic Poles from Ukraine's conflict-torn eastern region of Donetsk has arrived in Poland.
The group, numbering 188, was met by Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo on their arrival from Ukraine in the northern town of Krolewo Malborskie late on November 23.
"Welcome home. We will do everything we can to make you feel safe in the country that is yours now," she told them.
The ethnic Poles, from Mariupol, a port city near separatist-held areas on the Sea of Azov, arrived aboard four planes.
They will be housed for the first six months at a health facility near the city of Olsztyn, where they will undergo intensive Polish language training.
It is the second group of ethnic Poles to leave Ukraine and return to Poland since the conflict erupted in eastern Ukraine in early 2014.
Here's today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):
