ATO HQ: 3 ceasefire violations by Russian-backed militants yesterday. 1 Ukrainian soldier was killed by sniper

National Police: Pro-Russian militants are preparing terror attack in peaceful regions

President on Ukraine @poroshenko receiving American weapons @StateDept: It is a transatlantic vaccination against the Russian virus of aggression

Report that local citizens have blocked trucks of FSB to prevent deployment of radar station near Kerch

Ex-PM of Ukraine Yatsenyuk was briefly detained in Geneva airport on Russian interpol notice

Phone conversation between the President of Ukraine and the Chancellor of Germany: Decisions on the liberation of Ukrainian hostages must be implemented by the end of the year

Ukrainian army map shows Russian Army Orlan-10 drones regularly depart from Krasnodar oblast to monitor the frontline E of Mariupol (pierce 35 kilometres into Ukr. airspace). (Corrected: Map shows drones take off 20 km west of Yeysk.)

Merkel and Macron called for a return of Russian monitors to Donbas

McCain: Trump's decision to send anti-tank missiles to Ukraine to take on Russians "could not come at a more important time."

Ukraine ATO HQ blames Russian forces in violation of truce at Svitlodars'k bulge

OSCE SMM to Ukraine Chief Monitor welcomes recommitment to ceasefire, urges sides to honour it

Russia: US decision to supply Ukraine with arms will provoke Kyiv to use force in eastern Ukraine.

President Poroshenko sent his draft law on Anti-corruption court to Verkhovna Rada

ATO HQ: 22 attacks on Ukrainian position yesterday, 1 soldier was killed, another wounded

Statement from @statedeptspox on Ukraine "enhanced defensive capabilities."

Incoming shelling a few times north east of Mariupol.

President Trump expected to announce plan to sell anti-tank missiles to the Ukrainian government, sources tell @ABC; the plan would require congressional approval.

Video of Vil'ha tests today

Russia has deployed 2 another S-400 divisions in Crimea

Naftogaz claims $16 billion from Gazprom for underpaid gas transit through Ukraine. It expects a verdict in Stockholm by February 28.

Kyiv police detained a man with IED

Clashes near Krasnohorivka last night

Electrical power supply restored in Novoluhans'ke

Ukraine's @NaftogazUkraine won the case in arbitrary court in Stockholm against Russian @GazpromEN on the gas supply

OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Hug: We know that renewal of ceasefire is possible, that 3.5 years of violence can be put behind us, that a sustainable ceasefire in 2018 is possible and that people in eastern Ukraine can have a peaceful new year

OSCE's Hug: In 2017 we saw indications that it's possible to end the conflict, with the sides temporarily adhering to the ceasefire hundreds of times, allowing repair to essential civilian infrastructure including Stanytsia Luhanska Bridge

OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Hug: In 2017 SMM confirmed the injury of 384 people and death of 85, including our colleague Joseph Stone

OSCE's Hug: Signatories of Minsk agreements must realise that the longer this conflict goes on, the more difficult it will be to stop it. Ceasefire, withdrawal of weapons, disengagement of forces and formations and demining are desperately needed, but there is no sense of urgency

OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Hug: Last week the SMM recorded approx. 16,000 ceasefire violations - 40% increase on the previous week, bringing the total so far this year to almost 400,000

Ukraine Navy doesn't need Slava class Missile cruiser that is 95% under-construction in Mykolaiv - Ukroboronprom