Reuters: Missiles that brought down #Ukrainian jets may have been fired from #Russia http://t.co/xwgoooET0U
— Kyiv Post (@KyivPost) July 23, 2014
Incredible. MT @shaunwalker7 "This is a joke" CNN reporter amazed when faced with Peter Lavelle talking about MH17 https://t.co/QnP1k6Fzbi
— Dan Peleschuk (@dpeleschuk) July 23, 2014
Procession underway for 40 Flight #MH17 victims pic.twitter.com/a1yRrJrtmH
— Dan Linden (@DanLinden) July 23, 2014
The crash site of Malaysian Air flight 17 feels all but abandoned. No guards, no investigators, most debris removed. pic.twitter.com/T92jHQnvgo
— Ivan Watson (@IvanCNN) July 23, 2014
Getting personal. Mayor calls to deport Putin's daughter from dutch town, then apologizes. http://t.co/lcu9pPFZlQ
— Simon Kruse (@crusoes) July 23, 2014
Rebels kidnap a @CNN fixer in Donetsk, @imi_media confirms. Anton Skiba is a freelance journalist & photographer pic.twitter.com/W9HHi9aFuW
— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) July 23, 2014
According to this German journalist, some footage from one of the crash sites of the Ukraine jets shot down today has now surfaced on the Internet:
VIDEO von Absturzstelle einer der beiden abgeschossenen SU-25… https://t.co/r18KweOgDV #Ukraine
— Dirk Emmerich (@DEmmerich) July 23, 2014
@BBCDanielS Coming Home… pic.twitter.com/p1wRpIjoip
— Monic@ (@monicavanginkel) July 23, 2014
Our news desk has issued this item on a group of U.S. senators who have called for the Donetsk People's Republic to be labelled as a terrorist organization:
Less than one week after a Malaysian passenger plane was shot down over Ukraine, a group of influential U.S. senators has authored a letter to Barack Obama, urging the president to impose more severe sanctions on Russia and consider designating the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic as a "foreign terrorist organization."
Leading Democratic Party senators Dianne Feinstein, Robert Menendez, and Carl Levin wrote the letter to Obama yesterday.
The three senators pointed to what they said was "increasing evidence of their [DPR] human rights violations, including abductions and torture" which demonstrated that the pro-Russian separatist leaders in Donetsk "have threatened the lives of innocent Ukrainians, not to mention those unfortunate innocents merely traveling in civilian airspace over Ukraine."
The letter also called for the United States to impose "immediate broad sanctions against Russia's defense sector" and energy and financial industries.