That concludes are live blog for Saturday, October 22. Please join us again tomorrow for more coverage.
A photo gallery of life in the Donbas region:
In Kyiv, Crimean journalists held a rally demanding an explanation for why officials will allow Russian actors Marat Bashar and Nikolai Dobrynin to tour Ukraine after they had previously performed in Russian-occupied Crimea:
The car of the tax chief in Odesa was reportedly set on fire:
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated on October 22 that there can be no alternative to the Minsk agreements:
A Radio Svoboda report on the new draft law on education, which includes provisions on which languages will be taught:
The Russian-controlled court in Sevastopol's Lenin district has begun hearing the merits of a criminal case against the former head of the Russian Bloc party, Gennady Basov:
A fracturing of European unity on sanctions against Russia?
Radio Svoboda speaks with an analyst about Poroshenko's recent comments about the referendum in the Netherlands and how it will affect Ukraine's efforts at European integration, visa-free status from the EU, and the ratification of the Association Agreement: