KIEV, July 24 - The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine have vowed to go ahead with a peace plan for eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press reported.

KIEV, July 22 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree in accordance with which a military parade will be held in central Kiev to mark the 25th anniversary of Independence Day.

KIEV, July 24 – Ukrainian forces on Saturday engaged two pro-Russian separatist reconnaissance teams in the conflict zone, while military intelligence reported enemy tanks and heavy artillery positioning to attack.

KIEV, July 21 – National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov and U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin have discussed the joint fight against money laundering and terrorism financing.

KIEV, July 22 – Parliament has adopted a statement declaring the Malaysian Boeing-777 passenger plane crash as a terrorist attack committed by militants with the support of the Russian authorities.

KIEV, July 22 - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has called on the countries whose citizens were killed in the July 17 crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 to consider the possibility of sending civilian police units to guard the plane's crash site in eastern Ukraine.

KIEV, July 22 – Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin attended an open meeting of the enlarged bureau of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs in Brussels on July 22, which discussed current developments in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 23 - Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said on Wednesday Kiev would impose sanctions on Russian individuals and companies who directly or indirectly support "terrorists" fighting against government troops in the country's east.

DONETSK, July 23 - A powerful Ukrainian rebel leader has confirmed that pro-Russian separatists had an anti-aircraft missile of the type Washington says was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and it could have originated in Russia.

KIEV, July 23 – Two Su-25 attack aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian ATO forces, according to initial reports, were shot down from outside the territory of Ukraine, said Andriy Lysenko spokesman of the National Security and Defense Council.