KIEV, March 19 – One-third of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 has been reassembled which has provided enough evidence to conclude what was used to destroy the plane, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reported.

KIEV, March 19 - Ukraine's central bank said on Thursday it would continue its interventions on the interbank currency market in a bid to keep the hryvnia currency in a range of 21.50 to 23.50 hryvnia to the dollar.

BRUSSELS, March 19 - European Union leaders agreed on Thursday that economic sanctions imposed on Russia will stay in place until a Ukraine peace deal is fully implemented, effectively extending them to the end of the year if need be, Reuters reported.

KIEV, March 17 - Ukraine has called on the international community to consolidate efforts to pressure Russia into returning Crimea and paying compensation for the losses caused to Ukraine.

KIEV, March 19 – President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law a bill amending Article 10 of Ukraine's law granting special 'self-rule' status to certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

KIEV, March 18 – Decisions made by Crimean authorities after the so-called 'referendum' could pose serous problems with customs clearance of goods at ports of Crimea, a partner of Kiev's office of Schoenherr international law firm Denys Sytnyk and Head of the Chisinau's office of Schoenherr Vladimir Yurkovsky have told Interfax-Ukraine, comparing the situation in Crimea with the Moldovan Transdniestrian Republic.

KIEV, March 18 - Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said reforms and proposed Constitutional amendments aimed at the decentralization of the country's administration will be conducted in the country.

KIEV, March 19 – Events in Crimea raise the potential threat to the revision of Kharkiv agreements of 2010 under which Russia's Gazprom gave a $100 discount per 1,000 cubic meters of gas to national Naftogaz Ukrayiny in exchange for prolongation of the stay of the Russian Black Sea Navy in Sevastopol, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said.

WASHINGTON, March 19 - President Barack Obama ruled out U.S. military involvement in Ukraine on Wednesday, emphasizing diplomacy in the U.S. standoff with Russia over Crimea.

KIEV, March 19 - The West has come a long way in backing Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia over Moscow's takeover of the Crimea peninsula and is certain to provide further support, Ukraine's foreign minister said on Wednesday.