Efforts to conduct investigations and recovery operations have been delayed amid continued fighting between government troops and separatist fighters.
Russian state television has released a satellite photograph it claims shows that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
[…] the U.S. government dismissed the report as preposterous and online commentators called the photo a crude fake.
The photo released Friday by Russia’s Channel One and Rossiya TV stations purportedly shows a Ukrainian fighter plane firing an air-to-air missile in the direction of the MH17.
Some saw the photo as a propaganda effort intended to deflect criticism over the tragedy that Russian …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle