G7 leaders at the summit in Italy may be presented with a proposal to grant Ukraine a loan secured by frozen Russian assets, citing US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

EghtesadOnline: Ukraine ’s state-held gas firm Naftogaz is reportedly opposed to the pricing formula for US liquefied natural gas it could receive under a long-term contract, while there isn’t enough infrastructure ready to ship American LNG from Poland into Ukraine , analysts have said.

EghtesadOnline: European airlines can return to parts of Iranian and Iraqi airspace, the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said on Wednesday, three weeks after Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet amid an exchange of hostilities with US forces in Iraq.

EghtesadOnline: Dutch carrier KLM announced Thursday it will resume flights over Iran, about two weeks after it and several other airlines barred flights in the airspace after Tehran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner.

EghtesadOnline: Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered his deep condolences to the families of the Ukrainian plane crash in Tehran on Wednesday and urged the General Staff of the Armed Forces to take the required action regarding the error that caused the disaster.

EghtesadOnline: All 179 passengers on board a Ukrainian airliner were killed after it crashed shortly after departure from Tehran's main international airport early Wednesday.

EghtesadOnline: Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see "common sense" when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula.

EghtesadOnline: Ukraine says it thinks Vladimir Putin is planning a new invasion, and it's not hard to see why: the Russian leader has built up troops on its border and resumed the hostile rhetoric that preceded his annexation of Crimea two years ago.