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Pro-Russian separatists assemble on July 16 on the field where MH17 crashed almost one year ago, killing all 298 on board.
Pro-Russian separatists assemble on July 16 on the field where MH17 crashed almost one year ago, killing all 298 on board.

Live Blog: Ukraine In Crisis (ARCHIVE)

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12:09 3.7.2015

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The Ukrainian military's map of the current situation in eastern Ukraine, along with maps from nearly every day of the previous month for comparison purposes.

12:21 3.7.2015

Nadia Savchenko's lawyer says she now has legal grounds to appeal her case to the European Court of Human Rights.

15:38 3.7.2015

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15:47 3.7.2015

A report from our news desk:

The trial of Ukrainian pilot and parliament member Nadia Savchenko, who has been jailed in Russia since July 2014, may start within weeks, her lawyer said.

Ilya Novikov said on July 2 that Savchenko and her defense team had certified that she had finished reviewing the criminal case material and the preliminary hearing may be held in late July or early August.

Savchenko says she was illegally brought into Russia after being abducted by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

She is charged with complicity in the killing of two Russian journalists who died in the Ukraine conflict, as well as illegal border crossing.

Savchenko denies the charges and says Russia has no right to detain her.

The West has repeatedly called for her immediate release.

A Moscow court on June 10 extended Savchenko's pretrial detention until September 10.

Based on reporting by Interfax and TASS

15:50 3.7.2015

16:00 3.7.2015

A demonstration was held in Kyiv calling for "freedom for the prisoners of the gulag."

16:06 3.7.2015

Historian Timothy Garton-Ash on what guides Putin.

16:22 3.7.2015

Russia 'Alarmed' By Kyiv's Refusal To Negotiate With Rebels

Russia says Ukraine's failure to agree with separatists on implementing a peace deal is "alarming."

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Moscow on July 3 that the Kyiv authorities have “routinely demonstrated their inability to come to an agreement."

Lavrov said proposed changes to Ukraine's constitution did not honor a "single requirement" of the peace deal signed in Minsk in February.

He urged the West to pressure Ukrainian authorities to honor the peace deal, saying they were "torpedoing" the agreement and refusing to directly negotiate with rebels.

Separatists in eastern Ukraine have complained they had not been consulted over Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's proposed constitutional changes, and announced plans to hold local elections in October, sparking criticism in Kyiv.

Based on reporting by AFP and Interfax

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