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Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian parliament, will travel to Cuba for Fidel Castro’s funeral in place of President Vladimir Putin.

The former president is due to appear in a Kiev courtroom via video link from Russia’s Rostov-on-Don.

Ukraine Day 1014: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine   3 Ukrainian Soldiers, 1 Civilian Injured; Russia-Backed Militants Resume Shelling on Stanitsa Luganskaya 2016-11-28 04:57:27 Attacks on the Mariupol line intensified […]

There were no casualties reported today by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, but fighting remained intense particularly around Mariupol. Ukrainians marked the 82nd anniversary of Stalin’s terror-famine, known as the Holodomor.

Viktor Yanukovych is due to give evidence in the trial of five former Berkut riot police officers charged with killing Maidan protesters, but he has not himself been charged.

Leonid Parkhomenko was arrested by the FSB in Sevastopol on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian military reported 25 attacks yesterday.

The two men, Aleksandr Baranov and Maksim Odintsov, were arrested on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the frontier yesterday afternoon.

Ukraine Day 1008: LIVE UPDATES BELOW. Yesterday’s live coverage of the Ukraine conflict can be found here. READ OUR SPECIAL REPORT: An Invasion By Any Other Name: The Kremlin’s Dirty War in Ukraine   Fighting Reduced Today With No Casualties; Some Protesters Break Windows at Protest March 2016-11-22 01:22:25 The ATO wrote on its Facebook […]

The death toll continues to climb in Aleppo, and there are no more operational hospitals to help victims