EU may delay visa-free travel for Ukraine, our correspondent reports:
BRUSSELS -- The European Commission appears ready to offer visa-free travel to Georgia, but could postpone a similar offer to Ukraine.
In December, the European Commission said both countries had fulfilled the criteria to qualify for visa-free travel through the passport-free Schengen zone.
The commission said it would send a proposal to that effect to EU member states and the European Parliament in the beginning of 2016.
However, unnamed EU officials tell RFE/RL that Brussels is not convinced Ukraine has done enough to fight corruption, and therefore should not be grouped together with Georgia in the proposal.
Officials also fear including Ukraine could negatively impact a referendum in April in the Netherlands on the EU-Ukrainian Association Agreement.
Any proposal to allow Georgia or Ukraine to enjoy visa-free travel within the Schengen zone will need to be approved by the European Parliament and the 28 EU member states. (Rikard Jozwiak)
A businessman close to Kharkiv's mayor shot dead:
A businessman and ally of the mayor of northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has been shot dead.
Police say Yuriy Dyment was killed while visiting his mother's grave at a city cemetery on February 26.
Authorities called it "premeditated murder" and said an investigation had been launched.
The 52-year-old Dyment was a business partner of Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes.
Kernes himself barely survived a shooting attack in April 2014, a time of growing instability in eastern Ukraine and a month after Moscow annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
Kernes initially gave his backing to the pro-Russia separatists in the east before later switching his loyalty to the Ukrainian government. (UNIAN, Kh.depo.ua)
More speculation about Finance Minister Jaresko possibly replacing Yatsenyuk.
Barring any major developments, that concludes the live blogging for today.
Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with some of the tweets that caught our eye overnight.
At today's march in memory of assassinated opposition politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow: