Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said Friday that the country has barred Russian men between 16 and 60 years old from traveling to the country. Russian border guards opened fire on and captured three Ukrainian vessels and their 24-member crew. A Russian government-appointed ombudswoman said the three commanders of the Ukrainian vessels captured near the Russia-annexed Crimean Peninsula were being transferred to Moscow for interrogation. As this developed, the Ukrainian intelligence agency was searching the home of the father superior of Kiev’s biggest and oldest monastery, which is part of the Russian Orthodox Church. Ukrainian authorities sought to portray the Russian Orthodox clerics in Ukraine as supporting separatists.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 30, 2018 09:45 UTC