All Ukrainian news feeds are full of Saakashvili's name – he entered the territory of Ukraine with the confidence that the eccentricity of the action will attract attention. Was this what he was trying to achieve?

The situation with regard to the implementation of the Minsk agreements has not moved off dead center. The reason for this yet again is the Ukrainian side’s ignoring of the commitments it made. Kiev has neither political will nor willingness to implement even the first paragraphs of the Set of Measures.

On September 7, Pyotr Poroshenko delivered an annual message to the Verkhovna Rada, which caused a pronounced negative reaction among some Ukrainian deputies, public figures and ordinary citizens of the country.

Three Kherson schools categorically refuse to switch to the Ukrainian language. The City Council failed to find the best way to force violent Ukrainization other than to dismiss directors of educational institutions that are unable to 'convince' the parents.

On September 6, a regular meeting of the Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass was held in Minsk. The agenda of the meeting included compliance with a cease-fire, the implementation of the Agreement on the separation of forces and means and the exchange of prisoners.

The discussion of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin's initiative to send peacekeepers to the Donbass is buzzing the second day. The Heads of the DPR and the LPR expressed their agreement to discuss this proposal. Why did the topic acquire such a turn, if only recently did the Republic express absolute disagreement with the deployment of UN peacekeepers on their territory?

Petro Poroshenko, by an appropriate decree, which was published on September 1, 2017, enacted the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on biometric control for foreigners on the border from 2018 onwards.

The European Commission has increased duties on the import of maize, sorghum and rye by 2.12 times. The import duty for maize, rye and sorghum has been increased from €5.16 to €10.95 per ton. It is worth noting that the duties of €5.16 per ton were returned in August 2017 after almost three years of duty-free grain imports.

It is reasonable for the security of the OSCE SMM staff to strengthen them with the United Nations’ peacekeepers after separation of forces and means, under a framework decision, in order to implement a full-fledged ceasefire.

On September 1, the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union entered into full force. At the time, a non-signing of this document by Yanukovych had become a bone of contention that led to the coup d'état and the civil war in Ukraine.