Russia is taking a different line than the rest of the world regarding the Malaysia passenger plane that was shot down on Thursday. Ukraine and the West have stated that there is a mountain of evidence indicating that pro-Russian separatists shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with a Russian-supplied BUK missile system. Russia’s minister of defense says Russia did not deliver any SA-11 BUK missile systems to separatists in Ukraine, “or any other weapons.” The U.S., on the other hand, asserts that it has “detected an increasing amount of heavy weaponry to separatist fighters crossing the border from Russia …read more
Source: Business Insider