The live blog is now up for December 26. Stop by for the latest news from Ukraine.
Three Ukrainian soldiers wounded in southeastern Ukraine over past 24 hours, according to the country's military. No fatalities reported.
Explosion reported in the Solomen district of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. No further details immediately available.
The western Ukrainian city of Chmelnyckyj welcomes its new police force.
Very sad story.
We wrote about Vlad Kolesnikov in June.
"For some weeks now, Kolesnikov has been leading a quixotic and lonely campaign to protest Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea and Moscow's involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Most recently, he wore a T-shirt with a Ukrainian flag and the words "Return Crimea" on it to his school in the Moscow suburb of Podolsk. He tells how a school official met him outside the classroom."
From the BBC:
Tour of the museum that houses Ukraine's nuclear past
It was one of the most feared weapons of the Cold War and was dubbed "Satan" by Nato.
The USSR's SS-18 missiles were over a thousand times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the full arsenal capable of global destruction.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, many of them ended up in the hands of Ukraine, who agreed to put them out of service.
