Just hours after reports that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 had been shot down over eastern Ukraine, the stark reality that 298 civilians from nearly a dozen nations had just become the latest victims in a Russian-backed separatist movement came as somewhat of a jolt.
All were dead. Locals reported bodies falling from the sky into a field dotted with sunflowers.
It happened in a part of the world where Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea and the eruption of fighting in the east had already severely strained U.S.-Russia relations.
Now the downing of MH17 and the possibility that Russia could have armed …read more
Source: Voice of America
