So Ukraine has chosen its representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, which Kyiv is hosting this year following Jamala's victory last year with a song about the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars:
Good morning. We'll start the live blog today with a few of the things that caught our eye overnight:
First this:
And here's the economist Timothy Ash tweeting about a Kyiv demonstration yesterday calling for the closure of all Russian banks in the country. The protesters used an effigy of Ukraine's central bank chairwoman Valeriya Hontareva to make their point:
And, in case you missed it, here's a tweet linking to an interview Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman did with Current Time TV on the blockade in the east:
That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for March 1, 2017. Check back here tomorrow for more of our ongoing coverage.
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