Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

Tweet from the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe:

Here's our correspondent Robert Coalson's curtain-raiser about the vote in Donbas tomorrow.

"What the separatists -- with the endorsement of Moscow -- are doing right now is that they are running elections to legitimize the breakaway region and to create a frozen conflict."

From our news desk:

The spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council has reported six government soldiers were killed and another 10 wounded in fighting since October 31.

Spokesman Volodymyr Polyovy provided that casualty count at a news briefing on November 1 but did not specify where the soldiers were killed and wounded.

Fighting has continued unabated in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire agreement the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists reached in early September.

We have a great photo gallery from war-torn Donetsk.

Photojournalist Petr Shelomovskiy has covered the unfolding of the Ukraine crisis: from the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv, the fighting in eastern Ukraine, to the crash site of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17. In this series of photos, he looks at the harsh realities of daily life in Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine still blighted by war.

See the photos full size here.