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http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/world/europe/ukraine-malaysia-plane-questions/index.html
MALAYSIAN PLANE SHOT DOWN IN UKRAINE
A woman looks at wreckage at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash site on July 19.
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Full Text: http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/121431
From OSCE - Organization for
Security & Co-operation in Europe - Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine:
19 July 2014 - The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission obtained very limited access to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines MH17, which came down on 17 July near Hrabove (79 km east of Donetsk). There were dead bodies at the scene, marked, but exposed to the elements. No process of debris collection was observed. Some of the ’Donetsk People’s Republic’s‘ guards were visibly intoxicated and aggressive.......
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MALAYSIA AIRCRAFT CRASH IN UKRAINE
Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- International monitors investigating the Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern Ukraine said Friday the team was not given full access to the site and was greeted with hostility by armed men.
There didn't seem to be anyone really in control," Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe team, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Armed men, apparently pro-Russia militants, loosely guarded the area but couldn't answer the monitors' questions, he said.
Bociurkiw said the group only stayed about 75 minutes and examined about 200 meters at the scene before being forced to leave. Pieces of the airplane and bodies are spread over several kilometers.
The OSCE team arrived at the crash site near Torez in a remote section of eastern Ukraine that's controlled by pro-Russian militants battling the Ukraine government.
Nationalities
aboard MH17
192 Dutch
44 Malaysian (including 15 crew)
27 Australian
12 Indonesian
10 British
4 German
4 Belgian
3 Filipino
1 Canadian
1 New Zealander
Ukraine's
government has accused Russia of allowing weapons and military equipment,
including tanks, to cross the border illegally into the hands of pro-Russian
rebels.
While Ukrainian officials implicated pro-Russian fighters and their Russian backers for the jetliner's downing, Moscow argued Ukraine was to blame.
"With regard to the claims raised by Kiev, that it was almost us who did it: In fact I haven't heard any truthful statements from Kiev over the past few months," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an exclusive interview with the state-run Russia 24 TV channel.
European Union leaders agreed this week to expand sanctions against individuals and entities in response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, with details to be decided by the end of the month. Expanded U.S. sanctions were also announced in Washington.
Airspace closed
The Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure announced Friday that the airspace over Donetsk, Luhansk and part of Kharkiv where rebels are operating had been closed indefinitely.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai defended the routing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over the region, saying other carriers were sending their aircraft through the same airspace.
Three months ago, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying in areas some way south of where Flight 17 crashed Thursday. Thursday night, the FAA expanded the flight restrictions to all of eastern Ukraine.......