With regard to MH17, the U.K. Foreign Office has just issued this pretty blunt message on Facebook:
More on the Savchenko trial:
The trial of a Ukrainian air force pilot charged by Russian authorities in connection with the deaths of two Russian journalists in eastern Ukraine was adjourned shortly after it began behind closed doors in Russia's Rostov region on July 30.
A court spokeswoman said the court would consider an appeal by Nadya Savchenko's lawyers to conduct the trial in Moscow.
She said a date for the next hearing won't be set until a decision is reached on whether to hold the trial in Moscow.
Western diplomats who attempted to monitor the closed-door trial in the small Russian town of Donetsk, close to the border with Ukraine, were not allowed to attend.