Barring any major developments that ends the live blogging for today.
Some Russian reax to the Saakashvili appointment:
“Saakashvili is Head of the Odessa Region," Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Twitter. "When the circus comes to town... Poor Ukraine.”
"Saakashvili -- accused of numerous crimes against the Georgian people -- gets appointed governor of Odesa," Senior Russian Foreign Ministry official Konstantin Dolgov wrote on Twitter. "This is deeply symbolic of Kyiv's style of democracy."
From our news desk:
Germany is planning to offer more aid for Ukrainian refugees who have been driven from their homes as a result of the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier made the announcement on May 30 on a visit to refugee camp in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk.
The German news agency dpa says to date, Germany has provided 10 million euros ($11 million) in aid to Ukraine's refugees.
An estimated 2 million people have fled the fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. Some 1.2 million have remained in Ukraine, while 800,000 have left the country.
We wrote about this yesterday. Here is a live stream of Poroshenko swearing in Saakashvili, the fiercely pro-Western former president of Georgia, as governor of Ukraine's southwestern Odesa region.
Re-upping this story from yesterday: