I/II. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/07/ukraine-rebels-hold-mh17-flight-recorders-2014720185559709512.html
Ukraine rebels 'hold MH17 flight recorders' "Black box" recorders recovered from crash site but separatists say they will keep evidence for experts. Last updated: 21 Jul 2014 02:05 Rescue workers have recovered flight recorders from the crash site of the Malaysian airliner shot down in eastern Ukraine but pro-Russian separatists are keeping hold of them. On Sunday afternoon a video, reportedly recorded on Friday, was released by Ukraine's security services, showing rescue workers at the 25sq km crash site recovering what appeared to be a "black-box" flight recorder from the wreckage of MH17. The footage was recorded in a wheat field in the village of Hrabove. Ukraine Emergency Ministry searchers found an orange-coloured flight-data recorder and handed it to a colleague. Aleksander Borodai, a separatist leader, said on Sunday that his men were holding the instruments in Donetsk until experts could confirm they were the plane's flight recorders. "They are being held and when they're identified by the International Civil Aviation Organisation we're ready to hand over those objects," Borodai said. *Access to flight recorders* Volodymyr Groysman, vice prime minister of Ukraine, said his government was not surprised that the rebels had access to the flight recorders. "We were already suspecting that they had them [referring to the black boxes]. Over the last few days it has been hard to verify what has been happening with these black boxes," Groysman said. The pro-Russian separatists also said they had loaded a train with more than 200 bodies recovered from the crash site. News agencies said on Sunday no bodies remained at the site, a day after the Associated Press news agency reported rebels putting bagged bodies onto trucks and driving them away. No armed separatists were seen at the site. Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri, reporting from the site, said observers from the European security body, the OSCE, were present at a nearby railway station where the bodies were being stored in refrigerated carriages, but the monitors were not allowed to enter the carriages. "We are waiting to hear where the train will be heading. We understand it will be going to Ukrainian government-controlled territory," she said. Ukraine and the separatists accuse each other of firing a surface-to-air missile at the passenger jet as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur 33,000ft above eastern Ukraine on Thursday. Both deny the charge. All of those on the plane - 283 passengers and 15 crew - were killed. News reports of how the bodies had been decaying for days in the summer sun had ignited outrage worldwide, especially from the Netherlands, home to over half the victims. Earlier, the Ukraine government claimed it had reached a preliminary deal with the separatists to remove the bodies. The Dutch led the way in outrage over how the victims' bodies were being treated. "The news we got today of the bodies being dragged around, of the site not being treated properly, has really created a shock in the Netherlands,'' Frans Timmermans, Dutch foreign minister, said. II. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10977407/MH17-plane-crash-Russias-UN-ambassador-accuses-the-world-of-taking-Ukraines-side.html MH17 plane crash: Russia's UN ambassador accuses the world of taking Ukraine's sideAt a UN Security Council meeting on Friday, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said that "whatever the Ukraine government arbitrarily does is judged favourably by the world" 7:52PM BST 18 Jul 2014 Russia's ambassador to the UN has said the country places all blame on the Kiev government and calls for the Ukrainian side to take decisive measures to stem such incidents in the future. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin was speaking at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday on *the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10974050/Malaysia-Airlines-plane-crashes-on-Ukraine-Russia-border-live.html>*, killing 298 people on board. Addressing the meeting, Mr Churkin said: "It seems that whatever the government (of Ukraine) arbitrarily does is judged favourably (by the world), but it seems the victims of the geopolitical ambitions of the regime are actually a whole people, the people of Ukraine. The punitive operation in eastern Ukraine needs to be stopped as soon as possible. Negotiations for the crisis are still possible. " Earlier, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said the US believes the plane was likely downed by an SA-11 missile fired from an area in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday that the United States cannot rule out that Russia helped in the launch of the surface-to-air missile that shot down a Malaysian Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Meanwhile, the UK's ambassador Sir Mark Lyall Grant said "searching questions" had to be asked about Russia's links with armed separatists and called for Moscow to issue an "unequivocal condemnation" of their actions. "The United Kingdom urges Russia to reflect carefully on the situation they have created. We urge Russia to cease its policy of supporting armed separatist groups and their violent actions of destabilising a neighbouring county, of generating displacement and social and economic hardship. Let us hear today clear and unequivocal condemnation from Russia of the actions of these armed groups." *Source: APTN / Reuters* -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. 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