KIEV, July 23 - Russian aggression is to blame for violence in eastern Ukraine, where people are dying in what should be seen as a "hot war" rather than a "frozen conflict,” Reuters reported Sunday citing the U.S. special envoy to the Ukraine peace talks said on a visit to Ukraine.

WASHINGTON, July 23 - The U.S. Department of Defense intends to supply long-range radar to Ukraine to help the country counter artillery attacks by Russia-backed militants, the Wall Street Journal reported, referring to a representative of the department.

KIEV, July 23 - The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine held talks over the conflict in east Ukraine, with all sides calling for the full implementation of a ceasefire deal, the French presidency said, AFP reported.

KIEV, July 21 - The threat of a technical default exists but it is inappropriate to talk about a default in Ukraine in general, according to the president's representative in the Cabinet of Ministers Oleksandr Danyliuk.

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.