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The tragedy of flight MH17 must mark final point in Ukraine conflict
After the loss of so many innocent lives, the international community has to find a way to prevent the stand-off from reaching an even more dangerous level, says Dmitri TreninThe downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday catapults the crisis there onto the global agenda. More than half of the 298 victims were...
Ukraine responsible for Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster, says Vladimir Putin video
Russian president Vladimir Putin reacts on Thursday to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine. Putin says Russia asks his advisers to observe a minute of silence for the victims. Ukraine has accused pro-Moscow militants, aided by Russia, of firing a long-range, Soviet-era SA-11 ground-to-air missile. But Putin levels the...
Ukraine-Russia Row Over Who ‘Shot Down’ Plane
Nine Britons are among the 298 victims on board a passenger plane reportedly brought down by a surface-to-air missile. …read more Source: Sky...
MH17 plane crash: who are the pro-Russian separatists blamed for incident?
Speaking from Ukraine, The Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent Roland Oliphant explains who the separatists are that have been blamed by Ukraine’s security service for shooting down the plane …read more Source: The...
Rebels grant access to MH17 crash site
A team of international observers from the OSCE has been granted access to the site where Malaysia Airlines MH17 crashed in east Ukraine …read more Source: Financial...
‘I’ve never seen anything like it . . . ears, fingers, bones’
Pro-Russian rebels who have been fighting the government in Kiev for three months were among the first to arrive at… …read more Source: The...
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in pictures
The world is demanding answers from Russia after a Malaysia Airlines jet’s destruction over Donetsk, Ukraine, near the Russian border. The area has seen violent clashes between Ukrainian and pro-Russia separatists since the annexation of Crimea in February … …read more Source: The...
Shelling cuts power to Ukraine city
Shelling cuts electricity and water supplies in most of the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, and an oil refinery is on fire. …read more Source:...
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down in Ukraine video report
Firefighters and journalists discuss Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday by a ground-to-air missile, killing 283 passengers and 15 crew. Nine Britons are among the dead. Ukrainian rebels are being blamed for shooting down the plane with a Russian-made missile … …read more Source: The...
Putin Defensive Over Ukraine Plane Tragedy
The Russian president says the “awful tragedy” would not have happened if military action had not resumed in southeast Ukraine. …read more Source: Sky...
