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The US intends to provide USD 19M to bolster Ukraine’s military operation, which pro-Kiev authorities conduct against militias in the southeastern regions of the country.

Ukraine's legislature, the Verkhovna Rada, has turned down the resignation Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk submitted earlier in July.

Yatsenyuk announced he was stepping down last week after the governing coalition collapsed due to the decision of two of its parties, UDAR and Svoboda, to quit.

Explosions range out near the crash site of downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on July 31 as international investigators arrived for the first time in nearly a week after Kiev announced a surprise one-day halt to its offensive against rebels.

A movie from troubled Ukraine, “The tribe”, [“Plemya”] has won the traditional Propeller award at the 17th Motovun Film Festival, MFF, in Croatia, which wound up on Wednesday evening.

A total of 136 movies from 44 countries were shown over the five days of the film festival in Croatia’s northwest Istria region,

Ukrainians protesting against mobilization block trucks

BELGRADE -- A number of Serbian trucks and drivers are blocked on the Ukraine-Belarus border by a group of Ukrainian women, the Belgrade daily Večernje Novosti writes.

Ukraine's state-owned utility Naftogaz has insisted that conditions of gas transit to Europe previously agreed with Russian concern Gazprom be revised.

Five people and two companies are to be added to the EU's blacklist over the Ukraine crisis, the Wall Street Journal wrote on Monday.

Sberbank and VTB Group, which are among Russia's largest banks, will reportedly be affected.

Analysis of the black box flight recorders from a downed Malaysian airliner show it was destroyed by shrapnel coming from a rocket blast and went down because of "massive explosive decompression", a Ukrainian security official said on July 28.
   

Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, said on Saturday he would ban entry to and freeze any bank accounts of U.S. President Barack Obama and top EU officials for bringing "tragedy" to Ukraine, in a gesture of defiance after being hit by sanctions.
   

Russia's Foreign Ministry harshly criticised the new set of EU sanctions, reports  ITAR-TASS.

On Saturday the EU announced it widens the sanctions list to include Russian intelligence chiefs and organisations of the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.