The Russian maker of the Buk air defence missile system says it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was downed by an older version of the missile.

Russia’s foreign ministry said that a Ukrainian shell hit a Russian border town, killing one person and seriously injuring two others.

President Vladimir Putin has asked Moscow’s parliament to cancel a resolution sanctioning the use of military force in Ukraine, according to Russian news agencies.

Ukraine’s interior ministry says government troops will start a unilateral, seven-day ceasefire later today as a first step in efforts to de-escalate the conflict with pro-Russia separatists in the country’s east.