Ukraine

Odesa riot police disperse a rally against pro-russian pop star Ani Lorak concert.

Ukrainian army supports liberated Lysychiansk city residents - conflict zone in Luhansk oblast of eastern Ukraine.

Ukrainian people are fighting against Russian terrorists who seized the Donbas and downed Malaysia Boeing 777 Flight MH17. This video includes excerpts of the documentary video of Ukrainian citizens.

As the spokesman of the NSC News & Analysis Center, Volodymyr Chepoviy stated today, at the daily briefing, the mercenaries, despite their own promises to adhere to the ceasefire regime, shot down a helicopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and caused the death of 9 people.

People keep coming every day to the embassies of the Netherlands, Malaysia, UK, Australia and others, to express condolences on the tragedy of Malaysia flight MH17 shot down by Russian armed forces over Ukraine.

Militants shotup an ATO forces checkpoint in Severodonetsk on July 10. After firing a number of times at the Ukrainian servicemen, the militants turned their mortar in the opposite direction and began to shoot at the residential areas of the city. According to eye-witness reports, there were no casualties among the civilian population, but several of the city's buildings and other structures were damaged. This treacherous tactic the terrorists clearly used to turn locals against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Andriy Lysenko, spokesperson for the NSC News & Analysis Center, reported at the Center's evening briefing July 10, 2014.

The Ukrainian government is doing everything in its power to restore civilian life on those territories abandoned by the terrorists. On July 8, President Petro Poroshenko had a working visit to the City of Sloviansk. The Head of State received reports on the progress of his orders regarding the restoration of municipal infrastructure and services, spoke with the local population, and rewarded servicemen who had distinguished themselves during the ATO.

Terrorists of the so-called Luhansk people's republic are spreading an appeal to the UN in which they use fake information to accuse the Ukrainian state of using its army against peaceful locals, warns Natalia Pshenyanik, Advisor to the Head of Luhansk administration and activist.

The active phase of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) continues in Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. The NSC News & Analysis Center Spokesman Andriy Lysenko reported at the Center's daily briefing in Kyiv on July 7, 2014, that a series of population centers were taken back from the terrorists last week in cooperative action among units from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the SBU, the Interior Ministry, the National Guard, and the State Border Service.