Artillery fire blocked the route to the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner in eastern Ukraine on Monday, forcing an international delegation of European monitors and police officials to turn back without reaching the crash site.
The setback in efforts to secure the site, to recover more bodies and to begin an independent investigation came as Navi Pillay, the U.N. human rights official, said the downing of the Boeing 777-200 on July 17 may constitute a war crime.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Monday that the United Nations should guarantee security in the area, and he called on Ukraine to …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
