A new video from Current Time and RFE/RL's John Mastrini:
Generations Of Grief: Military Daughter Follows Father To Grave In Ukraine
After Serhiy Nykonenko was killed in eastern Ukraine, his daughter joined the fight against pro-Russia separatists. The family is grieving again.
Update on the PrivatBank story:
A Ukrainian court has suspended a hearing on whether to return share ownership of PrivatBank to its previous owners, in a case that is being closely watched by Ukraine’s international lenders and foreign investors as a litmus test for commitments to genuine reform.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has arrested a longtime business associate and political ally of former President Petro Poroshenko on suspicion of abuse of office.
An American diplomat at the center of a House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart has criticized the U.S. leader for involving his personal lawyer in foreign policy making.
That ends the live blogging for today. See you again tomorrow.
Good morning. We'll get the live blog rolling today with a news story from Washington in which Ukraine also figures:
U.S. Energy Secretary Perry To Resign Amid Ukraine Inquiry
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump says that Energy Secretary Rick Perry -- a key player in the controversy over Trump's dealings with Ukraine -- will leave his position by the end of the year.
In making the announcement on October 17, Trump said that he would nominate a successor soon. He said he already had identified the person he would name.
"We already have his replacement. Rick has done a fantastic job. But it was time," Trump said.
The announcement confirmed recent press reports that Perry would be stepping down in the near future.
An official said Perry was with the president earlier in the day when he shared the news aboard Air Force One on the way to Perry's home state of Texas for a campaign rally.
The U.S. administration has gone through a high level of turnover of top officials and cabinet members during Trump's presidency, which began in January 2017.
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have issued a subpoena to Perry as part of an impeachment inquiry into dealings with Ukraine.
The subpoena asks to Perry to provide documents related to a Ukrainian state-owned oil and gas conglomerate, Naftogaz, as well as his involvement in a July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Trump has said Perry encouraged him to make the July 25 call, in which the U.S. president pressed Ukraine to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son, who was on the board of a Ukrainian gas company
Perry, a former governor of Texas, who faced Trump in the 2016 Republican primary elections, has previously denied published reports that he was planning to resign in November.
Based on reporting by AP and Reuters