Hundreds of people gathered outside the parliamentary headquarters in Kiev Wednesday demanding more self-rule and better social benefits for the country’s southern city of Zaporizhya, local media reported.

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM noted an increase in ceasefire violations at and around the Donetsk airport. 

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According to the lawyer, the former president of Ukraine is requesting Ukrainian prosecutors to question him via a video-link because he fears for his life

In a telephone talk with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed Russia's intention to closely work on the MH17 crash investigation.

On July 23-24, a delegation of French MPs visited Crimea

Parliamentarian Manlio de Stefano confirmed that an Italian delegation will visit Crimea.

Manlio di Stefano, a member of the foreign policy committee at the Italian parliament's Chamber of Deputies told Kommersant Daily earlier the deputies had decided to make a visit to Crimea

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is apparently so desperate that he has tried to defend the delivery of lethal-aid to Kiev as "absolutely fair" by asserting that the country is fighting to save what he referred to as the free world from an overhyped, yet non-existent Russian threat.

The OSCE mission patrol that arrived in Shirokino for an inspection on July 27, came under fire from small arms and grenade launchers

Nearly 350 US military instructors are on the ground training Ukrainian servicemen as part of large-scale war games now underway in western Ukraine.