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An armed pro-Russian separatist stands at a site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

Ukraine officials: Recordings suggest rebels shot down civilian plane

Peter Leonard, MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

The site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

Here’s what we know about today’s Ukraine disaster

Peter Leonard, MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko speaks to supporters during a rally in Uman, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Presidential vote in Ukraine is scheduled for May 25. Ukraine is holding a presidential election Sunday but it has become downright dangerous for many in the east to be associated with the vote, since the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk declared independence last week. Ukrainian police and election officials accuse pro-Russia gunmen there of seizing election commission offices and threatening members in an effort to derail the presidential vote. ((AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky))

Pro-European billionaire wins Ukrainian presidential vote

Nataliya Vasilyeva, Peter Leonard

WikiLeaks: Turkmenistan president is vindictive

Peter Leonard

Uzbek man Inamedin Khafizov, 50, inspects his burned house in an Uzbek district in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Thursday, June 17, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a refugee crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful people without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) (AP)

Interim leader: Up to 2,000 dead in Kyrgyz clashes

Peter Leonard

37 killed, 500 hurt in new wave of Kyrgyz unrest

Peter Leonard, Leila Saralayeva

New Kyrgyz leaders vow to prosecute ex-president

Peter Leonard, Yuras Karmanau

Protesters shout ant government slogans as they gather in front of Kyrgyz government headquarters on the central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP)

Kyrgyzstan forms interim government backed by army

Peter Leonard

Kyrgyz riot police come under attack from demonstrators in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Police in Kyrgyzstan opened fire on thousands of angry protesters who tried to seize the main government building amid rioting in the capital as protests spread across the Central Asian nation. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (AP)

Kyrgyz uprising seizes security headquarters

Peter Leonard