Maybe the light is better this morning, maybe we dare look more this time, but we're seeing body parts everywhere today. Horrific. #MH17
— Kirit Radia (@KiritRadia) July 19, 2014
OSCE team stopped 100 meters from site. DNR guys flicked safeties off on AKs and brought out heavier machine guns. OSCE teams back in cars.
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) July 19, 2014
"I'm not an aviation expert, but..." https://t.co/rvKpkxDCi7 This is really desperate stuff from RT.
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) July 19, 2014
Our news desk has been compiling some more reactions to the deaths of AIDS/HIV experts and activists on Flight MH17:
Scientists searching for a cure to AIDS have vowed to push ahead with their quest despite the deaths of veteran colleagues on the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine.
Nobel laureate Francoise Barre-Sinoussi said ahead of an international AIDS summit in Australia that the death of scientist Joep Lange was a major setback.
But she said Lange and other members of the AIDS community who were killed on the flight would have encouraged delegates to go on with the six-day summit – which formally begins on July 20.
Reports yesterday said as many as 100 people traveling to the AIDS summit died when the jetliner was shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17.
But Barre-Sinoussi said on July 19 that the confirmed number of summit delegates who were killed was just six – far fewer than feared.
(AP, AFP)
Since beginning of crisis Ukrainian air defenses have not fired a single missile, despite alleged violations of airspace by Russian planes.
— Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) July 18, 2014
Meanwhile, fighting seems to be rumbling on in Luhansk (from RFE/RL's news desk):
Ukraine's Defense Minister has told President Petro Poroshenko that government troops had taken control of the southeastern part of the city of Luhansk in the country's east.
A statement on the president's website yesterday said, "The minister of defense, Valery Heletey, told President Petro Poroshenko that Ukrainian armed forces took control of the southeastern part of Luhansk."
The statement added that troops had also surrounded Luhansk airport.
Government troops and pro-Russian rebels have been reportedly engaged in fierce fighting in the separatist-controlled city.
Local officials said more than 20 people have died in shelling over the past two days. There are differing reports as to who is to blame for the shelling.
Electricity and water supplies have been reportedly knocked out in much of the city and a major oil refinery is on fire.
(Reuters, Interfax, and BBC)
Britain's tabloid press is not pulling punches: pic.twitter.com/fkriXYGBZn via @euromaidan
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) July 19, 2014
This probably hurts the most. In between the debris in the field. pic.twitter.com/0262v0Xwi8
— Olaf Koens (@obk) July 19, 2014
Russia rejects what everyone else thinks happened to #MH17. The murder weapon disappears. This is going to get worse. http://t.co/oIogzwvjqB
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) July 19, 2014