Valuable summary of what we know so far about the Mistral-class warship's possible delivery to Russia and questions over how it's currently flagged.
Here's the latest twist, courtesy of The Interpreter:
There was even more consternation when the AIS signal for the ship simply went silent for more than 15 hours -- no one could understand what this meant.
Finally, No Mistrals for Putin and other bloggers later reported that the AIS was back to showing the French flag.
We checked, and sure enough it was back to the French flag on November 16...
The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council claims that more trucks filled with who-knows-what have entered illegally from Russia:
The latest situation map from Ukrainian authorities:
Debris from MH17 will be gathered near the crash site, then taken to the city of Kharkiv, then transported to the Netherlands, which is leading the investigation.
Another image of the Dutch recovery and export team watching as wreckage from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July, killing all 298 people aboard, is loaded onto a truck for removal for investigation.
Western agencies quote Dutch authorities saying that recovery workers in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine have begun collecting debris from the Malaysia Airlines crash site again, four months after the plane was brought down.
The operation is being carried out under the supervision of Dutch investigators and officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The operation is expected to take around 10 days.
Continued fighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists has prevented the collection operation for months.
Debris will first be collected at a location near the crash site before being taken to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv and then to the Netherlands.