Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Malaysia Airlines crash: across globe, prayers said as grief turns to despair
Thousands of miles apart, family and friends united in mourning for those killed when missile downed flight MH17 in east UkraineThe crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has cast a web of grief around the globe, as communities from the Netherlands to Australia struggle to come to terms with the losses in their midsts.Many of the victims’...
Russians blame Kiev government for MH17 disaster, not Ukrainian rebels
Some floral tributes outside Dutch embassy in Moscow read ‘forgive us’ but most people believe in plot to undermine RussiaA trickle of well-wishers continued to lay flowers outside the Dutch embassy in Moscow on Sunday at a makeshift shrine to the victims of the MH17 crash. Several notes among the bouquets and teddy bears read...
Three pro-Russia rebel leaders at the centre of suspicions over downed MH17
Igor Strelkov, Igor Bezler and Nikolai Kozitsyn reportedly discussed the shooting down of a plane soon after jet explodedAs the world searches for answers over the Malaysia Airlines flight downed in eastern Ukraine, suspicion has fallen on the leaders of the pro-Russia rebels who have shot down three government planes in the past week.Attention...
Punishing Russia for the MH17 tragedy will not help Ukraine | Oliver Bullough
Anger at Russias actions is hardening. Yet our leaders should recognise that the west had its own role in Ukraines collapseUntil Thursday, the world was ready to let Ukraine fail: hollowed out by corruption, dismembered by Russia, given up on by western countries. The downing of flight MH17 has changed that.Visitors can be forgiven for not...
MH17 crash: Kerry lays out evidence of pro-Russia separatists’ responsibility
US secretary of state lists ‘enormous input that points fingers’ and urges Moscow to act as rebels move victims’ bodies from crash siteThe US secretary of state, John Kerry, has said all the evidence surrounding the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 points towards pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine being to blame. He...
President Putin is a pariah say the national newspapers in unison
Russia’s president could hardly have a worse press than the one he received in Britain today. The Sunday national newspapers were united in casting Vladimir Putin as the villain of the piece over the shooting down of flight MH17.Putin got both barrels from papers of the political left, right and centre. The only discernible difference of...
MH17: Kerry says all evidence points to pro-Russia Ukrainian separatists
Kerry ‘We have enormous input about this that points fingers’ US secretary of state calls on Russia to help full investigationThe secretary of state, John Kerry, said on Sunday that all the evidence surrounding the downed Malaysian passenger plane pointed a clear finger at Ukrainian separatists.Kerry appeared on all five major Sunday...
EU to rethink Russian relations in wake of MH17 tragedy
Britain, France and Germany agree need for more robust stance against Vladimir Putin and may press for further sanctionsBritain, Germany and France have agreed that the European Union must “reconsider its approach to Russia” in the light of the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, Downing Street has said.A spokesman for...
Maidan, Portraits from the Black Square review moving images of the Kiev protesters
Anastasia Taylor-Lind eschews reportage for quietly effective portraiture on the front line of the anti-government protestsWhen the photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind arrived in Kiev on 1 1 February 2014, protesters had been assembling in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) daily for almost three months to voice their collective impatience...
MH17 victims put into refrigerated train bound for unknown destination
International monitors arrive in Torez to inspect wagons accompanied by convoy of heavily armed and nervous rebelsThe bodies of the victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are being loaded on to three railway carriages, apparently with refrigerator capability, which are standing at the train station in the town of Torez, several miles from the...
