KIEV, July 17 – Latvia has called on France to reconsider its cooperation with Russia on supply of Mistral helicopter carriers due to the situation in Ukraine, Latvia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkevics said.

WASHINGTON, July 17 – President Barack Obama directed U.S. officials on Thursday to do all they could to support an investigation into what caused a Malaysian jetliner to crash in a Ukrainian war zone and pledged support to the affected countries as the probe moves forward, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 17 - A Malaysian airliner was brought down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard and sharply raising the stakes in the conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels.

WASHINGTON, July 18 - U.S. President Barack Obama expressed his "outrage" about the downing of Maylaysian Airlines flight MH17, calling the incident, which killed 298 passengers and crew en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

KIEV, July 17 – Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko, who was kidnapped in Luhansk region and is kept in jail in Voronezh, at a meeting with Ukrainian Consul Hennadiy Breskalenko confirmed that she was brought to Russia by force.

KIEV, July 18 – President Petro Poroshenko has emphasized that cooperation between the president and the government is of top-priority importance for the implementation of reforms in the country, the press service of the president reported.

KIEV, July 19 - Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, July 20 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims' remains, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 20 – Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said that it is necessary to ensure that the state and the regions, as well as private food companies, create the largest possible stocks of grain for the country.

KIEV, July 20 – Vasyl Volha, the head of the State Commission for the Regulation of Financial Services Markets and leader of the Union of Leftist Forces who was detained on July 19, is suspected of accepting a $500,000 bribe, the Segodnya newspaper reported, citing its own sources.