On Thursday, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-controlled Donetsk region, Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew members. Local emergency crews picked through horrific carnage at the crash site of flight MH17, placing dozens of sticks with white rags in the ground to mark where bodies lay.
"While we do not yet have all the facts, we do know that this incident occurred in the context of a crisis in Ukraine that is fuelled by Russian support for the separatists, including through arms, material, and training," the White House said in a statement.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the crash was "not an accident, but a crime" and blasted Russia's response to the downing of the jet as "deeply unsatisfactory".
The UN Security Council called an emergency session on Friday to discuss the disaster and British Prime Minister David Cameron called a crisis meeting of top officials.
Comments attributed to a pro-Russian rebel chief suggested his men may have downed the plane by mistake, believing it to be a Ukrainian army transport aircraft. Ukraine released recordings of what they said was an intercepted call between an insurgent commander and a Russian intelligence officer as they realised they had shot down a passenger liner.
The world's front pages yesterday were focused on the wreckage — with the exception of Russia's papers. The lead stories on several/most popular Russian papers (all of them are controled by the Kremlin) focused on food, how credit cards increase spending, and stories about modern banking and luxury living, Angela Merkel's birthday and similar topics, while the attack and it's devastating aftermath took center stage across the globe.
At the same time public in the West becomes more and more outraged by Kremlin behaviour and findings coming up.. Some of today's front pages...
Last presented is Dutch popular daily "Telegraaf"and it fronts huge spread photo of pro-Russian separatists leaders. Headline: "KILLERS"
and so on...
Reflecting general mood The Times cartoonist today published cartoon which shows Putin and his new trophy...
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