Section: US & Canada
Ukraine Official Says Separatists Had Missiles
Ukraine’s counterintelligence chief says separatists were in possession of three medium-range missile systems capable of bringing down commercial or military aircraft. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
MH17: Ukraine accuses rebels of interfering with evidence at crash site
A team of monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe was initially blocked from accessing the site on Saturday morning, then permitted to inspect only a small section of the crash scene, including one of the aircraft’s engines …read more Source: The Globe and...
Little Progress on Crash Investigation
The prospects of a thorough investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 fell into further doubt as Ukraine said separatist rebels were confiscating evidence and a rebel leader accused multinational investigators of delaying the probe. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
Malaysian Transport Minister to Ukraine to Investigate Crash
Malaysia’s transport minister is heading to Ukraine to join officials of his government already there preparing to assist in the investigation of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Malaysia is expressing alarm that the site, where a passenger jet of its flag carrier was apparently shot down by a missile, is not secure, and that...
Ukraine Crisis Shows Divisions in Old Soviet Bloc
WARSAW, Poland— Poland’s foreign minister had sharp words on the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jumbo jet in Ukraine — blaming the crash on Russia-backed “bandits.” But throughout most of central and eastern Europe, leaders withheld judgment, expressing shock but refusing to say more until more facts are in. The...
Plane Families Must Wait to Go to Ukraine Site
THE HAGUE, Netherlands— Malaysia Airlines says it has no immediate plans to fly the relatives of 298 passengers and crew killed in the downing of Flight 17 to Ukraine to visit the site because of security concerns. A spokesman for the airline says next of kin are being cared for in Amsterdam while a team from the carrier, including security...
Igor Girkin / Igor Strelkov: Donetsk People’s Army Commander Says Flight MH17 is Ukraine Conspiracy
MOSCOW—A top pro-Russia rebel commander in eastern Ukraine has given a bizarre version of events surrounding the Malaysian jetliner crash — suggesting many of the victims may have died days before the plane took off. The pro-rebel website Russkaya Vesna on Friday quoted Igor Girkin as saying he was told by people at the crash site...
Ukraine crisis shows divisions in old Soviet bloc
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s foreign minister had sharp words on the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jumbo jet in Ukraine — blaming the crash on Russia-backed “bandits.” But throughout most of central and eastern Europe, leaders withheld judgment, expressing shock but refusing to say more until more facts are in....
Ukraine: Russia is helping separatists destroy Malaysia Airlines crash evidence
By Peter Leonard KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of assisting separatist rebels in destroying evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down with 298 people onboard. The government in Kyiv said militiamen have removed 38 bodies from the crash site and have taken them to the rebel-held city of Donetsk....
Forensic experts gather material to ID victims
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Forensic teams fanned out across the Netherlands on Saturday to collect material including DNA samples that will help positively identify the remains of victims killed in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine.Police said in a tweet that 40 pairs of detectives from the National Forensic...
