Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has left for Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Holland, says Poroshenko's spokesman, Svyatoslav Tseholko.
RFE/RL Ukrainian Service journalist Oleksiy Matsuka, anchor of the TV program Donbas Realities, shares a photo on Facebook of a customer in a Donetsk cafe holding a Donetsk Airport sugar packet. These are, apparently, now served with coffee in Donetsk.
A group of about 30 people, along with Ukrainian Embassy staff in Russia, gathered to celebrate Ukraine’s Independence day in Moscow.
They raised a blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag next to the embassy and laid flowers to the monument of Taras Shevchenko, a famous Ukrainian poet and painter.
Here is today's map of the security situation in eastern Ukraine, according to the National Security and Defense Council (CLICK TO ENLARGE):
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mini-submarine dive in annexed Crimea continues to inspire Internet memes.
A screenshot from the Hollywood science-fiction movie Interstellar, where the main characters land on a planet where one hour equals seven years on Earth, was retouched with Putin's photo.
"One hour on this planet is equal to seven years on Earth."
“Great, that’s where we’ll wait for oil prices to rise,” the Russian leader says.
Mark Feigin, the lawyer of jailed Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, has congratulated Ukraine on its Independence Day.
“Lights of Maidan, immortal heroes of the Heavenly Hundred, soldier valor and inspired patriotism -- things for which Ukraine can be proud. Congratulations!”