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Family and friends pay tribute as last of the British dead in MH17 are named
Ten British citizens died when the Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down over eastern Ukraine. They included a father of three who died along with his Dutch wife and their childrenA British lawyer, his wife and their three sons were among the 298 people killed in the MH17 crash, it has emerged.John Allen, who studied and lived in the Netherlands,...
MH17: the evidence against Russia
In the hours after the Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine, evidence assembled from various sources appeared to point the blame at militants armed with Russian missilesSocial media A posting on an account linked to a pro-Russia separatist leader in Ukraine, on a Russian social network site, claims that militants shot down at least one Ukrainian...
David Cameron criticises Europe for lack of action on pro-Russia separatists
‘For too long there has been a reluctance to face up to the implications of what is happening,’ British PM saysDavid Cameron has said that if it were proven that Ukrainian separatists were behind the downing of a Malaysian jet carrying 298 passengers, Russia would be to blame for having destabilised the country.”If this is the...
Ukraine and the aftermath of the downing of flight MH17 | Dmitri Trenin
A ceasefire is only the first step in a process to reverse the trend towards mutual destruction in the regionPresident Barack Obama, in his televised address on Friday, called for a careful investigation into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane over eastern Ukraine. He left little doubt, however, as to whom he and the US government...
MH17 and its aftermath: ‘ordinary Russians are horrified and frightened’| Natalia Antonova
In Moscow, conspiracy theories abound, along with disdain for the separatists and some support for Putin’So will the Americans attack us now?” At my dentist’s surgery in Moscow I am used to being the one nervously asking questions. Yet on the day after flight MH17 was brought down, everyone here including my dentist, the...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Michael Fallon tells Putin – ‘get out of east Ukraine’
The newly-appointed defence secretary has warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin to “get out of east Ukraine” in the wake of the shooting down of flight MH17. …read more Source: The...
Pressure grows on Russia over crash
Western leaders urge Russia to pressure rebels in Ukraine over access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site, where monitors are being impeded. …read more Source:...
Call for review of EU-Russia relations
Western leaders harden anti-Putin rhetoric as evidence mounts that pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 …read more Source: Financial...
Putin’s hard line on MH17 will only push Russia into an ever-tighter corner
The Russian president has several routes of retreat in the face of growing pressure. He is unlikely to take any of themAlthough visibly embarrassed and increasingly cornered by mounting evidence that rebels using missiles supplied by Moscow were responsible for shooting down flight MH17, Vladimir Putin still has plenty of ways to extricate...
MH17: armed rebels fuel chaos as rotting corpses pile up on the roadside
Pro-Russia gunmen in standoff with international investigators as reports grow of looting and the removal of evidenceThree days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, the road near the village of Grabovo, where the aircraft crashed, is still lined with bodies.Rescue workers, most of them of unknown provenance, are...
