Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council:
For background on Iryna Dovhan: Ukrainian Woman Tells Of Public Abuse At Hands Of Pro-Moscow Separatists
Senator John McCain responds to President Donald Trump's tweet calling his predecessor "soft" on Russia:
Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives gets on the Russia sanctions bandwagon:
Russian Foreign Ministry to take on "fake news" now, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says:
"In the nearest time, we will launch our own project on the [Russian] Foreign Ministry's website where we will collect fake news from leading international media outlets -- but not only from them -- and also statements by officials and representatives of various countries. We will largely unmask them, publish their primary sources and [source] data, and show that Russian reactions at the respective issues have already been published."