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The Ukrainian government declares a unilateral one-day cease-fire in order to facilitate for a team of forensics experts and crash investigators to reach the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down two weeks ago, after days of delay caused by heavy fighting in the area.
2014-07-31

The Australian Federal Police and Dutch police abandon efforts to reach the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 due to escalating tensions.
2014-07-29

The bodies of crash victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are returned from Eastern Ukraine to the Netherlands together with flight recorders from the flight.
2014-07-23

Pro-Russian separatist commander Alexander Khodakovsky of the Vostok Battalion confirms that the rebels did possess the BUK missile system - believed to have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 - originating from Russia, and it could have been sent back to Russia subsequently to remove proof of its presence.
2014-07-23

Fighting restarts near Donetsk as international investigators arrive to examine the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
2014-07-21

Separatist rebels take all the 196 bodies from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to an undisclosed location.
2014-07-20

Neighbouring Ukraine and breakaway Transnistria, Moldova places its borders on alert as the unrest continues.
2014-05-5

Russia and Ukraine together with the United States and the European Union sit down for emergency talks in Geneva. All four agree that "illegal military formations in Ukraine" must be dissolved, and that everyone occupying buildings must be disarmed and leave them. There would be an amnesty for all anti-government protesters under the agreement.
2014-04-17