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.

KIEV, July 23 - President Petro Poroshenko at a meeting with representatives of groups and factions in the Verkhovna Rada thanked MPs for their support but criticized those MPs, who he said did not support the state's efforts in matters related to the country's sovereignty.

KIEV, July 24 – Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov has announced the dissolution of the Ukrainian Communist Party faction in the Verkhovna Rada.

WASHINGTON, July 24 - The board of the International Monetary Fund is expected to meet about Ukraine's loan program in late August, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday, which would likely allow the embattled country to receive its next aid disbursement of an expected $1.4 billion, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, July 24 - The United States said on Thursday that Russia was firing artillery across its border with Ukraine to target Ukrainian military positions in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists, Reuters reported.