In his latest dispatch from Ukraine, Christopher Miller looks at the Donbas rail blockade:
Mystery Surrounds Blockade Forcing Kyiv's Hand
Tensions continue to rise in eastern Ukraine as frequently armed activists ratchet up their makeshift blockade to divide Russia-backed-separatist-controlled territory from the rest of the country nearly three years after the onset of violence. read more
The head of Ukraine's national tax authority fell ill just as he was about to be charged with corruption. Thirty-eight-year-old Roman Nasirov was carried out on a stretcher and put into an ambulance late on March 2. (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)