Prime minister says his priority is recovering bodies from the crash site as the US and EU increase sanctions against Russia Australia is unlikely to follow the US and European Union in pursuing new sanctions against Russia as its focus remains on recovering the bodies of victims of the downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.Tony Abbott played down the prospect of rapidly strengthening Australias existing sanctions. The prime minister emphasised his priority was the 38 Australian citizens and residents who were among 298 people on the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 brought down, apparently by a missile attack, on 17 July. …read more
Source: The Guardian
