We'll wrap up our live blogging for Monday, September 8, with this rundown of the sanctions vote and other events in and about Ukraine today.
EU Passes New Russia Sanctions, But Leaves Timing Open
All eyes are on the Dutch Safety Board website, which is expected to publish its "preliminary report" on the in less than two hours (8:00 a.m. UTC).
Here's our newsroom curtain-raiser:
Dutch Experts To Release Preliminary Report On MH17
Among other things, Chilcote notes that a) FinnAir was one of the biggest losers of Russian threats of countersanctions, from a share-price perspective, hinting at Helsinki's "cold feet"; b) Gazprom had been on the leaked list of sanctions targets, but the final list includes only Gazprom Neft, the company's oil and refining arm; and c) around 3,000 Ukrainians were killed in the entirety of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and an equal number have already been killed in this six-month-old conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Overnight: