Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (Archive)

A Dutch plane carrying remains of more victims of the MH17 airliner tragedy has touched down in the Netherlands. The plane was also carrying personal belongings of some of the 298 passengers and crew who died that Ukrainian officials said had been kept in the rebel-held city of Donetsk for some time.

That concludes our live blogging for Monday, August 4.

Largely as told by Michael McFaul:

Human Rights Watch reports on how pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine "have threatened medical staff, stolen and destroyed medical equipment and hospital furniture, and compromised the ability of civilian patients to receive treatment.... Insurgent forces have also expropriated ambulances and used them to transport active fighters." Read more here.