{"id":15550,"date":"2014-07-18T11:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T11:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2014-07-21T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T10:05:50","slug":"6227-foreign-media-digest-17-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/6227-foreign-media-digest-17-july-2014","title":{"rendered":"Foreign media digest 17-19 of July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Tsarev, one of the leaders of the breakaway Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, said the rebels did not shoot the Malaysia plane down, Simon Shuster correspondent writes.<br \/>\nTime:<br \/>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have weapons that can take down a plane from that altitude,\u201d he told TIME, minutes after news of the crash broke.<br \/>\nBut only three weeks ago they had plenty of those weapons. At the end of June, the Russian state media had congratulated the rebels on their latest military acquisition \u2013 a set of Russian-made BUK missile launchers seized from a Ukrainian air force base, the edition writes. \u201cThe Donetsk resistance fighters have captured an anti-aircraft military station,\u201d declared the Kremlin\u2019s main television network Vesti.<br \/>\n\u201cThe rebels quickly seemed to put their new rockets to work. The downing of Ukrainian military aircraft has become almost commonplace in recent days,\u201d the author writes. He says that Russian media trumpeted another rebel strike late on Thursday afternoon, claiming that a Ukrainian AN-24 had gone down over the town of Torez. That was just a few hours before reports first emerged in the Russian media that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 had been shot down over the town of Torez, just near the Russian border with Ukraine,\u201d the article writes. When journalists asked Tsarev about BUK missiles that the rebels acquired in June, he said \u201cI have no more information for you,\u201d and hung up the phone,\u201d the edition states.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3001932\/malaysia-airlines-ukraine-crash-rebels-denial\/\" target=\"_blank\"> time.com <\/a><br \/>\nTelegraph:<br \/>\n It&#8217;s now emerged that many of the passengers were HIV experts, on their way to a conference in Melbourne. 108 delegates were on the plane. The victims, which have left the international HIV research community in mourning, included staff from the World Health Organisation and medical researchers, health workers and activists who were due to attend the twentieth International Aids Conference. Dr Lange, a Dutchman, who was on board with his wife Jacqueline van Tongeren, was a former president of the International Aids Society and has been researching HIV for 30 years. He has authored more than 350 papers and helped lead the fight for the availability of affordable treatments across Asia and Africa.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/ukraine\/10974050\/Malaysia-Airlines-plane-crashes-on-Ukraine-Russia-border-live.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.telegraph.co.uk <\/a><br \/>\nHis government plans to \u201canalyse information carefully\u201d. Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, told reporters when he arrived at his office Friday morning. \u201cI pray for the victims. The cause needs to be investigated, and Japan will do what it can with the international community.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/ukraine\/10974050\/Malaysia-Airlines-plane-crashes-on-Ukraine-Russia-border-live.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.telegraph.co.uk <\/a><br \/>\nAustralia, which has at least 27 citizens on the plane, said Russian support for Ukrainian separatists put it in line for some of the blame. \u201cThey are Russian proxies, essentially,\u201d Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, \u201cIf, as now seems certain, it\u2019s been brought down by a Russian-supplied surface-to-air missile, Russia bears a heavy share of responsibility.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-07-17\/malaysia-jet-shot-down-in-ukraine-near-russia-ifx-says.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.bloomberg.com <\/a><\/p>\n<p>WHO DID SHOOT THE PLANE DOWN?<\/p>\n<p>Reuters:<br \/>\nOne U.S. official said Washington strongly suspected the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 was downed by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile fired by Ukrainian separatists backed by Moscow. There are no evidences that Ukrainian army could fire the missile, official told anonymously.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/18\/us-ukraine-crisis-airplane-idUSKBN0FM22N20140718\" target=\"_blank\"> www.reuters.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe Wall Street Journal:<br \/>\nThe U.S. agencies are divided over whether the missile was launched by the Russian military or by pro-Russia separatist rebels, who officials say lack the expertise on their own to bring down a commercial airline in midflight. Ukraine, which also has sophisticated antiaircraft weaponry, said it hadn&#8217;t shot any such missiles at any time during the conflict. &#8220;All roads lead to the Russians to some degree,&#8221; said a U.S. official.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/malaysia-airlines-loses-contact-with-plane-over-ukrainian-airspace-1405612373?tesla=y&#038;mg=reno64-wsj&#038;url=http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303907904580035260199924980.html\" target=\"_blank\"> online.wsj.com <\/a><br \/>\nFinancial Times:<br \/>\nThe jet was shot down from the ground, Washington senior official told. Though US authorities have not been able to conclude where the missile was fired from and have not directly accused anyone of shooting down the jet, experts think the jet was shot down by pro-Russian separatists.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/7feadbb4-0dc6-11e4-85ab-00144feabdc0.html#slide0\" target=\"_blank\"> www.ft.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe Guardian:<br \/>\nThe huge loss of life threatens to have wide-ranging and unpredictable consequences, coming just after the US imposed further sanctions on Russia for continuing to provide weapons to the rebels. Defence and security experts said the Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile system, known to be in the hands of pro-Russia fighters in Ukraine, was most likely used.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/17\/malaysia-airlines-plane-missile-attack-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\"> www.theguardian.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times:<br \/>\nThere are reasons to believe that persons who are responsible for the situation, thought they had shot down a military jet and was shocked to understand that they downed a passenger jet. Despite the catastrophe\u2019s reasons, shooting plane with the representatives of 9 countries will lead to international crisis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/18\/world\/europe\/malaysia-airlines-plane-leaves-trail-of-debris.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.nytimes.com <\/a><br \/>\nWashington Post:<br \/>\nU.S. intelligence officials confirmed, but could not identify the origins of, the missile strike that led to the deadliest downing of a civilian passenger plane in recent decades.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/malaysia-airlines-plane-disappears-over-ukraine-feared-shot-down-by-missile\/2014\/07\/17\/0fffe1e6-0dcb-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.washingtonpost.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe chairman of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag Karl-Georg Wellmann asks tough economic sanctions against Russia if it is responsible for the downing of the passenger plane over eastern Ukraine. \u201cThe Western community must react with the utmost determination, if Russia\u2019s involvement in the downing is confirmed,\u201d he told Handelsblatt. First of all Russia should be sanctioned with \u201cthe wider sanctions of the third level\u201d. He stands for the full investigation of the tragedy. \u201cCircumstantial evidences, however, suggest that Russia is responsible for the tragedy,\u201d Wellmann adds. He reminds that on July 16 a Ukrainian jet had already been shot down. Today\u2019s crash also happened in a rebel-controlled area. This was done by professionals, amateurs do not have such equipment and skills to kill at the altitude of 10,000 meters,\u201d German MP points out. \u201cRussia is waging an asymmetric war with Ukraine,\u201d he adds.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/politik\/international\/nach-flugzeug-abschuss-cdu-politiker-fordert-harte-reaktion-gegen-russland\/10217832.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.handelsblatt.com <\/a><br \/>\n An incident with a crushed jet \u201cdramatically illustrates how far the madness in eastern Ukraine is now advanced. Moscow fueled the tension irresponsibly to keep blackmailing Ukraine. Kyiv suspects millions of its citizens in terrorism and tries to regain the control in the eastern regions, despite all casualties, rich and powerful Ukrainians foment the conflict to save their earnings.\u201d That\u2019s why, the author is sure, \u201cthe international community should give a straight answer to show all sides of the conflict that there is no alternative as to start negotiations as soon as possible.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagesanzeiger.ch\/ausland\/naher-osten-und-afrika\/Stoppt-den-Wahnsinn--Jetzt\/story\/17879310\" target=\"_blank\"> tagesanzeiger.ch <\/a><br \/>\nThe prime suspect for the shooting down Boeing 777 goes by the name Igor Girkin (dubbed Strelkov, or shooter), who is the former Russian intelligence officer, The Malaysian Times writes. The edition reminds his message in social media after the catastrophe happened. \u201cWe did warn you \u2013 do not fly in our sky.\u201d But that post has now been deleted as it has become clear the jet was from Malaysia Airlines.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysiantimes.com.my\/is-this-the-man-who-shot-down-mh17\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.themalaysiantimes.com.my <\/a><\/p>\n<p>An accident became the reason for Russians to think about their own defense, The Washington Post writes. The edition underlines that Russia\u2019s deputy defense spokesman told Russia 24 TV news channel to \u201cthe crash must be thoroughly investigated together with the representatives from international organizations.\u201d Associated Press informs that most of the airline\u2019s black boxes were in the hands of separatists. The agency says, this fact was confirmed by pro-Russian gunmen. Russian news agencies and Reuters also reported about it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/missile-downs-malaysia-airlines-plane-over-ukraine-killing-298-kiev-blames-rebels\/2014\/07\/18\/d30205c8-0e4a-11e4-8c9a-923ecc0c7d23_story.html?hpid=z1\" target=\"_blank\"> www.washingtonpost.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe state press agency of the People&#8217;s Republic of China Xinhua published a comment wrote by their journalist (nobody from China officials was mentioned) with warnings about hasty conclusion on airliner crash. The commentator criticized officials from the United States, Australia and Great Britain and warned about the consequences of the one-sided accusation of Ukrainian rebels and Russia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/indepth\/2014-07\/18\/c_133494414.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> news.xinhuanet.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe edition writes US criticizes Kremlin\u2019s arming of rebels. \u201cPutin has gone too far,\u201d Hillary Clinton said while commenting the death of 298 passengers of Boeing 777 in a missile strike.<br \/>\nThe US has pointedly criticised Russian arming of rebels in Ukraine as the world demanded answers over the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 by a suspected Russian-made missile, resulting in the death of all 298 people on board the civilian airliner. The leaders of countries from the whole world were shocked and outraged by photos and videos from the plane crash site, the newspaper writes and underlines US security service informed the jet\u2019s been brought down by a surface-to-air missile.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/18\/mh17-pressure-on-russia-as-world-demands-answers-over-planes-destruction\" target=\"_blank\"> www.theguardian.com <\/a><br \/>\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday it was too soon to make any decisions about imposing tougher sanctions against Russia after the downing of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine. \u201cIt&#8217;s perhaps premature to draw conclusions before we have access to the remains of the plane,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/18\/us-ukraine-crisis-merkel-sanctions-idUSKBN0FN12X20140718\" target=\"_blank\"> www.reuters.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe distraught father of a brilliant maths student killed on Flight MH17 yesterday accused Vladimir Putin of his murder. Simon Mayne\u2019s son Richard, 20, was one of ten Britons on the Malaysia Airlines jet downed by a missile in eastern Ukraine.<br \/>\nFighting back tears, Mr Mayne said he had little doubt the Russian president was responsible for the loss of 298 lives. \u2018If Putin wanted to speak out he would do so, he would sort them [the rebels] out,\u2019 said the 53-year-old teacher and company director.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2697082\/Twins-dear-brother-I-love-Agony-sister-British-UN-worker-Flight-MH17-crash-victims.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.dailymail.co.uk <\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;We will turn every stone and if it becomes clear that this was an attack I will be personally responsible for guaranteeing that the people responsible will be determined,\u201d Dutch Prime Minister said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-28360784\" target=\"_blank\"> www.bbc.com <\/a><br \/>\nUkraine&#8217;s SBU security service has confiscated recordings of conversations between Ukrainian air traffic control officers and the crew of the doomed airliner, a source in Kiev has told Interfax news agency.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-28360784\" target=\"_blank\"> www.bbc.com <\/a><br \/>\nThomas Greminger, says that OSCE monitors were only given limited access to the plane crash site in Ukraine. He says they were stopped by local illegal armed groups.<br \/>\nSwitzerland currently holds the chairmanship of the OSCE and is spearheading diplomatic efforts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-28360784\" target=\"_blank\"> www.bbc.com <\/a><br \/>\nHours before the crash, Russia had announced its own airspace restrictions near eastern Ukraine, closing below 32,000 feet the route Flight 17 would have taken through Russia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2014\/07\/17\/world\/europe\/maps-of-the-crash-of-malaysian-airlines-flight-mh17.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"> www.nytimes.com <\/a><br \/>\n CDU foreign policy expert and deputy head of CDU fraction Andreas Schockenhoff thinks the situation is so serious,we need to think about a United Nations peacekeeping mission with a special mandate.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/bookmark\/H4WDO1LR9VB2\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.pressreader.com <\/a><br \/>\nSir Malcolm Rifkind, the former Foreign Secretary, said sanctions against Moscow should be dramatically toughened if it is established that Russians supplied weaponry brought down the plane.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/bookmark\/EMS5TLUHCNZ5\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.pressreader.com <\/a><br \/>\nSweden Le Matin thinks Ukrainians could shoot down a plane, hoping to crash Putin&#8217;s jet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/bookmark\/0M8QX2R7PB97\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.pressreader.com <\/a><br \/>\nCanadian newspaper thinks Western world&#8217;s weak reaction to Russia&#8217;s &#8220;unprecedented outraged behavior&#8221; became the reason for the tragedy in Ukraine. &#8220;If tougher sanctions were implemented weeks ago, would it be possible that Putin left Ukraine and the plane would peacefully land in Kuala Lumpur?&#8221; the observer asked rhetorically.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/bookmark\/MWMCB38Z8HN6\/PageView\" target=\"_blank\"> www.pressreader.com <\/a><br \/>\nThe newly-appointed defence secretary Michael Fallon has warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin to \u201cget out of east Ukraine\u201d in the wake of the shooting down of flight MH17. \u201cIf Russia is the principal culprit, we can take further action against them and make it clear this kind of sponsored war is completely unacceptable. It is sponsored terrorism as far as people of east Ukraine are concerned,\u201d he adds.<br \/>\nHe said Mr Putin needs to \u201cmove his troops away from the border and stop interfering,\u201d adding: \u201cThey need to get out of east Ukraine and leave Ukraine to the Ukrainians.\u201d<br \/>\nFallon also admits Britain\u2019s politics in resolving Ukrainian conflict was effective in recent times.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/malaysia-airlines-mh17-crash-michael-fallon-tells-putin--get-out-of-east-ukraine-9617051.html\" target=\"_blank\"> www.independent.co.uk <\/a><br \/>\nAustralia\u2019s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop called for a full, thorough and independent international investigation into the flight, which was shot down over Ukraine. \u201cWe want to have access to the MH17 crash site. We are currently choosing members of our office in Warsaw to be sent to the crash site,\u201d she said. She commented on the information that terrorists had found black boxes from the plane. \u201cRegardless of the circumstances we urges separatists to co-operate with an investigation into this crash. If they have taken the black box, it must be returned to authorities immediately.\u201d \u201cThis accident underlines an urge necessity to deescalate the tension in eastern Ukraine,\u201d she added.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2697010\/Faces-innocent-victims-Melbourne-real-estate-agent-wife-student-leading-AIDS-doctors-confirmed-dead-Flight-MH17-terrorist-attack-killed-298-people-board.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.dailymail.co.uk <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Separatist in the east of Ukraine have all possibilities to shoot down Malaysian passenger jet, Mika Aaltola, director of the Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs said in an interview to YLE, one of the major Finnish TV channel. Aaltola says earlier separatists had possibilities to shoot down two Ukrainian military jets. Expert underlines one of the jet was a cargo-type airplane, which flies at high altitude. \u201cIt proves they are able to shoot down planes at high altitudes. But we need to take into consideration the fact that they need a big air defence battery, and they need professional to deal with military weapons. So, there are two questions: where did they get a missile launcher and who showed them how to operate,\u201d Aaltola said. He thinks, Russia should bear a responsibility for the accident. The tragedy, which happened on 17 July, could speed up end of Ukrainian crisis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/aaltola_separatisty_imeli_vozmozhnost_sbit_boing_777\/7363136\" target=\"_blank\"> yle.fi <\/a><\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Angela Merker said that those who is responsible for crashing Malaysia passenger jet over Ukraine needs to bear a responsibility. Moscow must take responsibility for advancing a peace process in Ukraine, where a truce is needed to allow an investigation into the crash of an airliner close to the Russian border, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday. For the West, there was no alternative to seeking dialogue with Putin over Ukraine, Merkel told a news conference in Berlin. \u201cThese events have once again shown us that what is required is a political solution. I see no alternative as to sit and talk with Russia\u2019s president Vladimir Putin. We have some difficulties in our partnership, and we need to pull through,&#8221; Merkel said.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85-%D0%B2-%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%87%D1%8C-%D0%BA-%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%83\/a-17793601\" target=\"_blank\"> www.dw.de <\/a><\/p>\n<p>US President Obama has said in a press conference that there is evidence the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down by a surface-to-air-missile.<br \/>\nPresident Obama says the plane was shot by a surface-to-air missile. &#8220;The shot was taken from the territory that was controlled by the Russian separatists,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nUS President said they didn\u2019t want to go ahead of the facts until a thorough investigation would be made with the representatives from Russia. One of the key conditions is to guarantee a bilateral ceasefire and give access to the plan crash site. He underlines terrorists couldn\u2019t have shot down the plane without Russia\u2019s military help. According to his words, we do not have time for playing games and Russia\u2019s president Vladimir Putin has to make a decision whether he supports separatists or cooperates with Ukrainian authorities to resolve the conflict in eastern Ukraine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-28360784\" target=\"_blank\"> www.bbc.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Tsarev, one of the leaders of the breakaway Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, said the rebels did not shoot the Malaysia plane down, Simon Shuster correspondent writes. Time: \u201cWe don\u2019t have weapons that can take down a plane from that altitude,\u201d he told TIME, minutes after news of the crash broke. 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