In a short statement issued at the Dutch Safety Board located at the Hague, investigators said today that their investigation into the crash of MH-17 over Eastern Ukraine that took the lives of 298 people, two-thirds of which were Dutch, was caused by “high-energy objects.” Ruled out as a cause of the crash was pilot […]
Ukraine’s Defense Council says preparations are under way to retake the rebel-controlled eastern city of Donetsk — the last stronghold of heavily armed pro-Russian separatists seeking autonomy from Kyiv. Defense spokesman Andriy Lysenko did not provide details. But he said the military has opened humanitarian corridors for city residents to flee the planned offensive, and […]
WHITE HOUSE —U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on Russia to allow international investigators immediate, full, and unimpeded access to the site in Ukraine where a Malaysian passenger jet was shot down last week. Obama said Monday the pro-Russian separatists who control the part of eastern Ukraine where the plane went down are preventing international investigators […]
Speaking from the White House on Friday, President Obama said that evidence points to a surface to air missile being fired at, and bringing down Malaysian Airllines Flight MH17 as it was transiting the rebel-held area in eastern Ukraine bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam on Thursday. The airliner was at its cruising altitude of 33,000 […]