19/7/14

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Сегодняшний Telegraph
MH17: British families say 'Russian gangsters killed our loved ones'
Daily Mail: Tucked in the corner of a leafy square, is this the Russian missile launcher that blasted flight MH17 out of the sky?
Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported the crash at 16.13 Moscow time - 'several minutes before the crash'
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Anything to confess, Putin? Russian leader in church as first picture emerges of home destroyed by falling MH17 victim. Now Ukraine says Russia has removed 38 corpses 'to destroy evidence'
MAX HASTINGS: This lying brute who has to be shackled
"News of the destruction of Flight MH17 and the appalling murder of 298 people gave Russia’s president Vladimir Putin a chance to step back from a precipice.
Yesterday, he could have stood up before the world and denounced the crime; endorsed a full investigation and punishment of the guilty.
Instead – yet almost inevitably, given the nature of the man – he presented his stone face. He asserted, against all logic and evidence, that Ukraine and its rulers were the guilty parties.
He lied, as he has lied all his life since he was first schooled in deceit and brutality by those masters of the art, his old employers at the KGB."
"For those – almost all of us – who have hoped since the end of the Cold War that Russia could join the fellowship of nations, pursuing the values of democracy and freedom, this is a sad day.
It confirms what has seemed increasingly apparent since the Ukrainian crisis erupted: Putin’s Russia is not merely no friend to the West. It has chosen to make itself our enemy."
"The first round of Western sanctions against Russia in the spring addressed only some named individuals. The list of Putin associates whose funds are frozen and whose family members are denied access to Western countries must be drastically extended, even if some of them own European football clubs and mansions in Kensington."