MOSCOW (AP) — The crash of the Malaysian airliner in rebel-held eastern Ukraine is being viewed as a potential turning-point in the conflict — either, the international revulsion over the death of all 298 people on board will force the warring parties to seek an end to the violence, or the disaster will stoke the fighting as the recriminations escalate.
An assessment of the strategies and pressures in play in the conflict that has killed more than 400 people aside from the victims of the crash:
Ukrainian authorities and Western countries mostly blame pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine and there are some …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
