Section: The United Kingdom
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...
EU capitals urge tougher Russia sanctions
Suspected shooting down of a civilian airliner over Ukraine has galvanised EU diplomats to call for tougher sanctions and speedier implementation …read more Source: Financial...
Flight MH17 – facts and reactions
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down on Thursday in east Ukraine killing all 298 people on board near the town of Torez in Donetsk province …read more Source: Financial...
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...
Malaysia Airlines crash: AIDS experts devastated by loss of colleagues
Leading members of the AIDS research community pay tribute to colleagues who were travelling on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 when it crashed in Ukraine …read more Source: The...
World leaders under pressure to ‘bring those b******* to justice’ for bringing down flight MH17 amid warnings of a ‘war at the heart of Europe’
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said world leaders needed to realised there was ‘a war in the heart of Europe’ taking place, amid growing fury at Moscow’s backing the pro-Russian separatists suspected of carrying out the assault. …read more Source: Daily...
SBU intercepts pro-Russian separatists’ phone conversations: Moment rebels ‘realized they had shot down a jetliner’ released by Ukrainian government
Ukrainian security services claim to have intercepted two phone conversations in which pro-Russian separatists appear to admit to shooting down Flight MH17, railing, ‘They shouldn’t be f*****g flying. There is a war going on.’ …read more Source: Daily...
Malaysia Airlines crash: Family who lost two members on flight MH370 have lost two more on MH17
An Australian family has tragically been hit by both Malaysia Airlines tragedies, having now lost four members through flight MH370’s disappearance and flight MH17 being shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian PM launches furious attack on Russia – but Moscow claims Kiev shot down MH17
Flight MH17, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft, exploded into flames at 33,000ft as it was hit by a surface-to-air missile over territory near Donetsk held by pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: Daily...
