KIEV, July 15 – The Security Service of Ukraine has indisputable evidence of Russia's involvement in an attack on a Ukrainian An-26 military transport aircraft in Luhansk region on July 14, SBU chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said.

KIEV, July 15 - Ukraine has made fresh charges of Russian involvement in its conflict with separatist rebels, suggesting Moscow may have had a role in an air strike on Tuesday that killed 11 people, Reuters reported.

BRUSSELS, July 15 - European Union leaders, under U.S. pressure to take a tougher stance towards Russia over the Ukraine crisis, could give the go-ahead on Wednesday to new sanctions but they will fall short of the far-reaching economic measures Washington wants, Reuters reported.

KHARKIV, July 14 – Former Sloviansk Mayor Nelia Shtepa has been arrested for two months with no right to post bail, the prosecutor's office of Kharkiv region reported.

KIEV, July 16 – The Cabinet of Ministers has submitted a draft law on the basis of the state anticorruption policy in Ukraine (the anticorruption strategy) for 2014-2017.

KIEV, July 16 – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has said that illegal armed groups operating in eastern Ukraine do not want to hold talks on a bilateral ceasefire and urges them to return immediately to respective consultations, reads a statement by the trilateral contact group on the settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine, which was published on the OSCE Web site on Tuesday.

KIEV, July 16 - Ukraine is studying various options for future relations with Russia, but thinks that it is still not the right time to sever diplomatic relations, said Valeriy Chaly, deputy head of the Presidential Administration.

KIEV, July 16 - Pro-Moscow separatists battled to break through lines of government forces near the border with Russia in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, and a tentative step towards agreeing a ceasefire in the intensifying three-month conflict failed, Reuters reported.

WASHINGTON, July 16 - U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced the most wide-ranging sanctions yet on the Russian economy, targeting key institutions including Gazprombank and Rosneft Oil Co, as well as other energy and defense companies, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 17 - Ukraine and Russia will work together to make sure that European natural gas supplies continue uninterrupted during the high demand season, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said.