KIEV, July 22 – The Netherlands will present a report on an investigation into the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) crash in eastern Ukraine at an August 10 closed session of an international task force investigating the crash but will not publish it for the time being, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal said.

WASHINGTON, July 22 – U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Milley has said he supports providing Ukraine with lethal defensive equipment to counter the artillery of Russian-backed rebels.

KIEV, July 22 - President Petro Poroshenko has assured the Australian prime minister's special representative on the investigation into the Flight MH17 crash, Allan Grant Houston, that the Ukrainian side has evidence of the time, place and circumstances of the crash of the Malaysian aircraft, and Ukrainian security services are ready to provide all materials of the international expert commission probing the crash.

KIEV, July 22 - U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power said she believes that Russia, through its influence on separatists in Ukraine, may put an end to the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, July 22 - The U.S. government believes that pro-Russian separatists most likely shot down a Malaysia Airlines jet "by mistake," not realizing it was a civilian passenger flight, U.S. intelligence officials said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

GENEVA, July 22 - The Red Cross has made a confidential legal assessment that Ukraine is officially in a war, Western diplomats and officials say, opening the door to possible war crimes prosecutions, including over the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH-17, Reuters reported.

DONETSK, July 22 - A train carrying the remains of many of the 298 victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived in a Ukrainian government-held city on Tuesday on the first leg of their final journey home to be reclaimed by their families, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 22 - Ukraine's parliament approved a presidential decree on Tuesday to call up more military reserves and men under 50 to fight rebels in eastern Ukraine and defend the border against a concentration of troops in Russia, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 22 – The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has presented a note to Libya's charge d'affaires in Ukraine regarding the seizure of a ship with Ukrainian sailors by unidentified gunmen in Benghazi (Libya), the ministry's information policy department has reported.

KIEV, July 23 - A Ukrainian man being questioned about explosions at mosques in central England was charged on Monday with murdering a Muslim pensioner, Reuters reported.