07-17-2014, 01:19 PM
(07-17-2014, 01:09 PM)Duchess Wrote: Oh my God. Would Russia really shoot down a passenger jet. This is awful.
Not on purpose, IMO.
But pro-Russian separatists in the Eastern Ukraine might have mistakenly shot it down.
Putin is claiming that he's not fueling or supporting them -- a denial that many doubt to be true.
Until it can be proven who's responsible for targeting the plane, I expect to see a lot of fingerpointing -- the Ukranian military will insinuate that it was the Russian separatists and vice versa.
Very sad for the families of the passengers, and potentially very big political impacts in regards to Putin's relations with NATO and the EU. There were 20 or more Dutch passengers on the outbound Amsterdam flight.