Good morning. We'll get the live blog rolling today with a couple of items filed overnight by our news desk:

Hungary Vetoes NATO Statement On Ukraine Over Kyiv's Education, Language Laws

Hungarian officials have vetoed a joint NATO statement about Ukraine because it didn’t contain language criticizing Kyiv for its education and language laws that Budapest says deprive the rights of the Hungarian minority in the neighboring country.

Hungary, in particular, believes the country's education law restricts the right of Ukraine's ethnic Hungarian minority of approximately 125,000 people to be educated in their native language.

Kyiv passed the law in 2017, which emphasizes the teaching of Ukrainian in publicly-funded schools and curtails the teaching of Russian and other minority languages, such as Romanian and Hungarian.

It doesn’t forbid pupils from seeking further language study in their native language at private institutions or through other avenues, such as self-organized groups or home tutoring.

Kyiv maintains that the law is meant to ensure that all Ukrainian citizens can speak the state's official language, and it denies the law is discriminatory.

The ongoing spat has prompted Budapest to previously block all meetings of the NATO-Ukraine Commission -- the key format for bilateral cooperation between Kyiv and the Western military alliance -- at all levels above that of ambassadors.

In June, Brussels dropped criticism of the educational law, pushed mostly by Hungary, at the yearly EU-Ukraine summit.

The NATO-Ukraine Commission has also reconvened with the alliance’s leadership currently on a two-day visit to Ukraine that ends on October 31.

Still, Hungary says that changes to the education and language laws hamper minority rights and Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government has chided Kyiv for not allowing ethnic Hungarians there to hold dual citizenship.

A Hungarian consul in the westernmost Ukrainian region, Zakarpattya, where most ethnic Hungarians reside, was expelled in October 2018 after video emerged showing the diplomat issuing Hungarian passports at a citizenship swearing-in ceremony.

Ukraine doesn’t allow dual citizenship.

Meanwhile, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto dismissed criticism that Hungary’s relationship with Russia is uncomfortably friendly as Russian President Vladimir Putin was meeting with Orban in Buda Castle on October 30.

"These are laughable insults on [the] part of our Western friends," Szijjarto said, as cited by the Associated Press.

Orban followed up on the minister's comments, saying that the NATO statement was still being finalized so that it includes at his behest clauses that state Ukraine should adopt changes recommended to the disputed laws by the Venice Commission and legal experts for the Council of Europe, the continent's top human rights body.

Ukrainian Lawmaker In Zelenskiy's Party Apologizes For Online Chat With Sex Worker In Parliament

A lawmaker in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s ruling Servant of the People party has apologized for browsing the profiles of women who offer sexual services for money and chatting with them on dating sites during a plenary parliamentary session.

In a Facebook post on October 30, Bohdan Yaremenko, who is married with a son and daughter, said he exercised poor judgment and that he deleted a previous post where he said pictures and video footage of him using dating applications on his mobile phone were "fabricated."

"Not all decisions are equally successful," Yaremenko, 48, said. "I want to apologize to all whom I’ve caused problems with my ill-advised actions: from my wife to the [parliamentary] faction and the president."

Images appeared online on October 30 showing the lawmaker browsing profiles of women on the Mamba and Loveeto dating sites.

During a voting session, Yaremenko was shown reading the profile of a 32-year-old woman who had outlined conditions for a paid-for tryst.

Later, he starts chatting with a woman asking about the parameters for a meeting. In response, the woman names a dollar amount per hour for having sexual intercourse.

Later on the same day, Yaremenko, who heads parliament’s foreign policy and inter-parliamentary cooperation committee, was shown browsing Tinder, another dating site.

A former diplomat, Yaremenko was dismissed as the consul-general in Turkey in late 2013 after he criticized the actions of riot police for using excessive force to disperse a group of protesters on November 30, 2013 in what was the first day of the pro-democratic Maidan movement.

Based on reporting by Liga.net, Hromadske, Ukrayinska Pravda, and Bykvu

We are now closing the live blog for today (a little bit earlier than usual), but we'll be back again tomorrow morning to follow all the latest developments. Until then, you can keep up with all our ongoing Ukraine coverage here.