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A woman carries a baby as she passes destroyed houses following what locals say was overnight shelling by Ukrainian forces in the eastern town of Slovyansk on June 9.
A woman carries a baby as she passes destroyed houses following what locals say was overnight shelling by Ukrainian forces in the eastern town of Slovyansk on June 9.
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Live Blog: Crisis In Ukraine (Archive)

Summary for June 9

-- Ukraine's Foreign Ministry says that Moscow and Kyiv have reached a "mutual understanding" on key parts of a plan proposed by President Petro Poroshenko for ending violence in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.

-- Reports say up to 20 armed gunmen were trying to seize property from a factory (Topaz) that makes communications and electronic-warfare equipment in the Donetsk region.

-- A deputy foreign minister says Russia will consider any expansion of NATO forces near its borders a "demonstration of hostile intentions" and "take the necessary political and military-technological measures to support our security."

-- A two-man crew for Russian Zvezda TV arrived in Moscow after being released from detention in Ukraine.

-- Serbian officials say their own work on the Russian-backed South Stream gas pipeline will have to be suspended after Bulgaria stopped construction of its portion based on EU and U.S. concerns.

-- Ukrainian security forces are reportedly still battling pro-Russian separatists in the east near Slovyansk and Donetsk.

*NOTE: Times are stated according to local time in Kyiv
11:38 25.5.2014
11:17 25.5.2014
According to AFP, Andrea Ronchelli was killed by a mortar shell:
An Italian journalist was killed Saturday during a mortar shell attack close to Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine, Rome's foreign ministry announced.

"Unfortunately, all of the information points to the fact that he has died," a spokeswoman told AFP on Sunday.
11:14 25.5.2014
BREAKING: Italian journalist killed in eastern Ukraine
ROME, May 25 (Reuters) - An Italian journalist is believed to have been killed near the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk where pro-Russian forces have been fighting Ukrainian government troops, Ukrainian authorities told the Italian foreign ministry.

Andrea Ronchelli, who Italian media reports said was a freelance photographer, was killed along with a Russian national but his body had not yet been formally identified, the Italian ministry said in a statement issued on Sunday.

The two bodies had been transferred to a hospital in Slaviansk, the statement said. Members of Ronchelli's family were expected to arrive in Kiev on Sunday.
11:11 25.5.2014
11:08 25.5.2014
Contrast the scene in Donetsk with polls opening in Kharkiv:

And in Rivne:
11:03 25.5.2014
Our Ukrainian Service has this video of a closed polling station in Donetsk:
11:00 25.5.2014
10:59 25.5.2014
Little update from Luhansk. The head of the country's Central Election Commission, Mikhail Okhendovsky, told reporters that only two of the 12 polling districts were holding elections.
10:48 25.5.2014
More on the exit polls from the "Kyiv Post":
There will be two exit polls in the extraordinary presidential election in Ukraine on Sunday - the national exit poll and the all-Ukrainian TV exit poll.
10:44 25.5.2014
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has criticized the separatists stopping the voting in eastern Ukraine:

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