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EU announces further sanctions on Russia after downing of MH17
Proposals will not be applied immediately as Putin urges rebels to cooperate with investigators for the first timeThe European Union will expand its sanctions blacklist to target Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and draw up further broad measures including an arms embargo and financial restrictions on Russian businesses, EU foreign ministers...
MH17: The clues which may lead to the launch site of missile which downed airliner
Telegraph pursues clues on the ground in Eastern Ukraine to try and track down where rocket launcher was based …read more Source: The...
EU ministers clash over ‘feeble’ sanctions against Russia
The European Union today threatened Russia with broad economic sanctions if it fails to rein in Ukrainian separatists but it… …read more Source: The...
MH17 remains ‘still at crash site’
The search for victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine must go on as only some 200 bodies have been recovered so far, Dutch officials say. …read more Source:...
Ukraine’s ‘hotheads’ | @guardianletters
Angus Roxburgh (Comment, 22 July) describes the “rebels” in eastern Ukraine as “drunken, gun-toting hotheads”. Some facts are in order. Ukraine’s democratically elected President Yanukovich was overthrown in a western-backed and largely fascist-led coup. In response the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, who had...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: EU’s new sanctions on Russia fall short of UK demands
European foreign ministers agreed limited new targets for sanctions against Russian companies and individuals linked to the conflict in Ukraine today – but fell well short of demands by Britain and America to take decisive action against President Putin’s regime. …read more Source: The...
MH17: victims’ bodies to spend what families hope will be last night in Ukraine
Malaysia Airlines victims to be flown to Amsterdam, where grim task of identification will begin …read more Source: The...
Why did so many people share graphic images of MH17 crash site on social media?
Horrific and unfiltered images of plane debris, dead bodies and the personal belongings of those who died in the Malaysian Airlines crash were shared widely on social media within minutes of the disasterEyewitness photos from the crash site of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 appeared on Twitter within minutes of it crashing into fields near the...
Flight MH17: Russia must be sent clear message, says Hammond – video
The foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, says the EU must send a “very clear signal to Russia” that it cannot continue its support for separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, while welcoming the beginning of the repatriation of many of the bodies of victims from flight MH17 … …read more Source: The...
Odessa film festival plays on, despite Ukraine’s sea of troubles
‘Cannes of the East’ festival went ahead after crowdfunding campaign, despite intense violence and the aftermath of the MH17 crash Cannes prizewinner to direct film on Crimean unrest Maidan review an unblinking look at Ukraine’s history in actionOdessa is “the pearl of the Black Sea”, a Ukrainian city full of lovely...
