Meanwhile, in Kyiv, there have been fisticuffs in the parliament after Party of Regions deputy Mykola Levchenko called for an end to the government's "Antiterrorist Operation" in the east of the country:
Our multimedia department has issued this Reuters video of the train carrying bodies of victims of MH17 arriving in Kharkiv:
Ukraine's interior ministry @AvakovArsen claims Severodonetsk has fallen to Ukrainian forces. Fighting continues in Lysychansk next door
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) July 22, 2014
Reuters: #Ukraine votes to call up more #military reserves to protect border http://t.co/6qrYDB1MoH #war #troops
— Kyiv Post (@KyivPost) July 22, 2014
OSCE to BBC: #MH17 parts "look different than when we first saw them. In other words they've been cut into," one part "almost split in half"
— Kirit Radia (@KiritRadia) July 22, 2014
In case you missed it, my full remarks after today's @UN Security Council adoption of resolution on #MH17: http://t.co/0lz5MjdoqD
— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) July 22, 2014
Ukraine's interior ministry @AvakovArsen claims Severodonetsk has fallen to Ukrainian forces. Fighting continues in Lysychansk next door
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) July 22, 2014
#EU Foreign Policy Chief #Ashton: There will be no new sanctions adopted at today's meeting of EU Foreign Ministers. #Russia #Ukraine
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) July 22, 2014
Reuters has been reporting on the possibility of atrocities in the Ukraine conflict becoming classified as war crimes (from RFE/RL's news desk):
According to the Reuters news agency, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has made a confidential legal assessment that Ukraine is officially in a war, opening the door to possible war crimes prosecutions.
Reuters -- citing sources -- says the ICRC has not made any public statement, seeking not to offend either Ukraine or Russia by calling it a civil war or a case of foreign aggression.
ICRC spokeswoman Anastasia Isyuk told Reuters "The qualification has been shared bilaterally and confidentially."
Designating the conflict in Ukraine as a war -- either international or civil -- would turn both sides into combatants with equal liability for war crimes, which have no statute of limitations and cannot be absolved by an amnesty.
Without the designation, Ukrainian government forces would be responsible for protecting civilians and infrastructure under international human rights law, while separatists would only be liable under Ukraine's criminal laws.
Our news desk has issued this item on a protest outside the Russian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur:
Hundreds of Malaysian protesters marched on the Russian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur today, waving signs and demanding justice for victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down last week.
The demonstrators are demanding the arrest and trial of those responsible for downing the flight in pro-Russian, rebel-held eastern Ukraine, which killed 298 people onboard.
A Russian Embassy official said staff members have been order to stay inside the embassy compound.
Western countries have accused the pro-Russian separatists, possibly with help from Moscow, of shooting down the plane.
Earlier today, Russian Ambassador to Malaysia Lyudmila Vorobyeva repeated Moscow’s denial of having anything to do with the plane crash and again accused Ukraine of being responsible.
(AFP, AP)
WATCH: Kuala Lumpur Protesters Demand Justice For MH17 Victims
