Here's another news item, this time from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service:
Exhibition On Post-Euromaidan Ukraine Vandalized In Kyiv
KYIV -- Unknown individuals have vandalized an arts exhibition in Kyiv devoted to the situation in Ukraine since protests ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych three years ago.
Officials at the Center for Visual Arts Culture told RFE/RL that 15 masked men ransacked the arts exhibition Lost Opportunity by artist Davyd Chychkan late in the afternoon of February 7.
"All the art works were destroyed...They drew some graffiti on the walls, took some works with them, broke a wall and then ran away," the officials said.
The graffiti left by the attackers said "Slaves of the Separatists!" and "Moscow's Mouthpiece!"
An investigation has been launched.
A pro-Western government came to power after the Euromaidan protests forced Moscow-friendly Yanukovych to flee in February 2014.
Russia illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and backed separatists in the country’s east in a war against Kyiv's forces that has killed more than 9,750 people since April 2014.
Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with this development that happened overnight (from RFE/RL's news desk):
Separatist Commander 'Givi' Killed In Eastern Ukraine
KYIV -- A separatist commander in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk has been assassinated, the Russia-backed separatists say.
Mikhail Tolstykh, better known by his nom de guerre Givi, died after a bomb exploded in his office in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk just after 6 a.m. local time on February 8, de facto separatist authorities and a source with ties to its military told RFE/RL by phone.
Donetsk separatists have called the killing "a continuation of the terrorist war launched by the Kyiv authorities" against the residents of eastern Ukraine, according to Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. They said an investigative team was working at the bomb site.
Givi was leading the Somali battalion and made a name for himself in the brutal battle for Donetsk airport.
Video footage from 2015 shows him verbally and physically abusing Ukrainian servicemen captured during the battle.
Another separatist commander -- Arseny Pavlov, who was better known by the nickname Motorola -- died on October 16 when a bomb exploded in an elevator in his apartment block in Donetsk.
Fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists has killed more than 9,750 people in eastern Ukraine since April 2014.
With reporting by RIA
We are now closing the live blog for today, but we will be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then you can keep up with all our other Ukraine coverage here.