Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)
Work continues in recovering bodies at Ukraine crash site
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Bodies and the flight recorders from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, destroyed by a missile last week over eastern Ukraine, were delivered safely Tuesday from rebel control to this northeast Ukrainian city. Forensics officials raised the strong possibility that the remains of many victims were still buried in the wreckage,...
Ukraine jet-downing crisis eases
DONETSK, Ukraine — After days of resistance, pro-Russian rebels on Monday yielded some ground in the crisis surrounding downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 — handing over passengers’ bodies, relinquishing the plane’s black boxes and pledging broader access for investigators to the crash site. …read more Source:...
U.S. builds case against rebels, Russia
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration expanded its case Sunday accusing Ukrainian separatists and Russian forces of working hand in hand to acquire and operate a missile battery believed to have shot down a Malaysia Airlines jetliner last week, killing nearly 300 people. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Jet-downing vitriol growing; Ukraine claims proof of Russia missile system
KIEV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government said Saturday that it had proof that Russia had provided the surface-to-air missile system that shot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Ukraine rebels limit access to site of downed jet
KIEV, Ukraine — The quest for clues in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet faced major obstacles Friday, as the rebel militias that Ukraine blames for the disaster limited access to the mammoth crash site strewn with airplane parts and bodies. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Separatists may have Russian anti-aircraft training
WASHINGTON — The United States has gathered a significant body of evidence that Ukrainian separatists have been trained on Russian territory in recent weeks to fire anti-aircraft missiles, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials who have raised alarms over the reports. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Official: Malaysia Airlines plane shot down over Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — A Ukrainian official said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down today over a town in the east of the country, and Malaysia Airlines tweeted that it lost contact with one of its flights over Ukrainian airspace. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
U.S. and Europe raise sanctions on Russia, but allies show strain
WASHINGTON — Struggling to defuse the persistent crisis in Ukraine, both the United States and the European Union on Wednesday imposed new economic sanctions on Russia, with President Barack Obama declaring that Russian leaders must see that their actions supporting rebels “have consequences.” …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Russia and Ukraine draw nearer to direct conflict
KIEV, Ukraine — Accusations of cross-border hostilities between Ukraine and Russia intensified Tuesday, deepening a shadowy war of real or imagined attacks and sabotage that threatens to draw the two countries into direct conflict. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
World Briefs: Downed plane rouses Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s government said Russian forces may have shot down one of its airplanes to bolster the Kremlin-backed insurgency amid a European push for peace talks that Germany expects to inch forward today. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
