This ends our live blogging for July 29. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.
Good morning. A fair bit of news from overnight.
-- Savchenko trial is due to open in Russia today
-- Russia has been criticized for its MH17 veto
-- IMF lauds Ukraine for its reforms
-- Ukraine charges Russian major with terrorism
More on Julie Bishop's condemnation of the MH17 veto:
From our news desk. Ukraine investigating French visit to Crimea last week:
Ukraine has launched investigations into a recent visit by French lawmakers to annexed Crimea.
The probes were revealed by Ukrainian lawmaker Heorhiy Lohvinskiy, who on July 30 posted an official letter online from the Prosecutor General's office signed by Deputy Prosecutor-General Anatoliy Matios.
The letter says the investigations were launched into "the illegal entering and exiting of Ukraine's temporarily occupied territory" by French lawmakers.
On July 23, ten deputies from the French National Assembly visited Crimea, which was forcibly seized by Russia from Ukraine in March 2014 and then hurriedly annexed by the Kremlin after an illegal referendum.
The French lawmakers said ahead of their visit that their goal was to "understand how the population lives" and "counter the disinformation of European media" about Russia's internationally unrecognized annexation.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he was "shocked" by the visit -- the first there by Western dignitaries since Russia annexed the peninsula.
Fabius also condemned the delegation's visit as a breach of international law.
Ukraine's Foreign Ministry called the trip "irresponsible" and said it may impose entry bans on the French lawmakers.
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.
With regard to MH17, the U.K. Foreign Office has just issued this pretty blunt message on Facebook: