Here is today's map of the latest situation in the Donbas conflict zone, courtesy of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):
Here's a Savchenko update from RFE/RL's news desk:
Political Leaders, Others Sign Letter Urging Savchenko's Release
More than 200 political leaders and other prominent individuals have signed an open letter to European leaders urging them to take "emergency measures" to demand that Russia release Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.
Svetlana Alexievich, the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature from Belarus, is among the signatories of the letter, which accuses Russian authorities of making a "mockery of civil rights, international law, and their own Constitution."
Savchenko was captured in June 2014 while fighting with a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. She is now on trial in Russia, accused of acting as a spotter who called in coordinates for a mortar attack that killed two Russian journalists.
Savchenko declared a hunger strike, refusing even liquids, on March 3 after the judge adjourned the trial for a week without allowing her to give her final statement.
Prosecutors have asked for Savchenko to be found guilty and sentenced to 23 years in prison. A verdict is expected later this week.