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Trudeau visited Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Babi Yar and the Holodomor memorial.

Kerry announced the US would provide Ukraine with another $23 million in humanitarian assistance.

But President Poroshenko says that Russian troops must withdraw before constitutional amendments are made.

The process had been expected to be completed by the end of this summer.

Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko was captured by Russian-backed fighters in eastern Ukraine and kidnapped into Russia to stand trial. She is now free. LIVE UPDATES

The Rada has passed a bill allowing President Poroshenko’s ally Yuriy Lutsenko to be nominated for the post of Prosecutor General despite lacking a law degree. In addition, Ihor Kononenko, against whom there are widespread accusations of corruption, has been reinstated as the deputy chairman of Poroshenko’s political party.

President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed the governor of the Lugansk region, Georgiy Tuka, and the head of the foreign intelligence service, Viktor Hvozd.

Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has voted to dismiss Arseniy Yatsenyuk and replace him with Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister.

The UN has called for the immediate release of a staff member detained in Donetsk

Rada Speaker Volodymyr Groysman has proposed a list of candidates for Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers as negotiations to make Groysman the new prime minister continue.