Police team turns back from Ukraine crash site
Source: AP-EXCITE
By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and PETER LEONARD
SHAKHTARSK, Ukraine (AP) Heavy fighting raged Monday around the Malaysia Airlines debris field, once again preventing an international police team charged with securing the site from even getting there.
Government troops have stepped up their push to win back territory from pro-Russian separatists in fighting that the United Nations said Monday has killed more than 1,100 people in four months.
The international delegation of Australian and Dutch police and forensic experts stopped Monday in Shakhtarsk, a town around 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the fields where the Boeing 777 was brought down.
Sounds of regular shelling could be heard from Shakhtarsk and residents were seen fleeing town in cars.
FULL story at link.
Self-proclamed Donetsk People's Republic policemen watch refugees fleeing Shakhtarsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine on Monday, July 28, 2014. An international police team abandoned its attempt to reach the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane for a second day running Monday as clashes raged in a town on the road to the area.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Historic NY
(37,449 posts)the easier the evidence can be manipulated.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)contaminated for as long as that one has. I hope they can get control of the site soon.
reorg
(3,317 posts)Fighting has stopped an international police team from reaching the wreckage of a Malaysian Airlines plane for a second day running, as pro-Russian rebels admit they have lost control of part of the crash site.
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The mandate of the police team is to secure the currently rebel-controlled area so that comprehensive investigations can begin and any remaining bodies can be recovered.
With government troops intensifying their push to claw back more territory from pro-Russian separatist rebels, the death toll is mounting steadily.
Today rebels admitted they had lost control of part of the crash site to pro-Kiev forces.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708164/MH17-investigators-pledge-attend-crash-site-today-just-24-hours-saying-dangerous-ongoing-fighting-Ukraine.html
The junta is in panic, the only thing that matters for them today is to evade exposure. Kievs actions run counter to [President Pyotr] Poroshenkos decision to declare a 40-kilometre zone around the crash site a ceasefire territory.
Earlier on Sunday after visiting the Malaysian embassy in Ukraine, President Poroshenko told journalists he had ordered to stop combat operation in a 40-kilometre zone around the Malaysian Boeing crash.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/742498
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)I give you props for even posting in the thread, even though it doesn't make any sense-
freshwest
(53,661 posts)reorg
(3,317 posts)...
It comes after intense fighting between Ukrainian troops and rebels in eastern Ukraine killed at least 19 civilians, local officials said.
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Mark Rutte called President Petro Poroshenko to ask Ukrainian forces to stop fighting near the crash site, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10997363/MH17-Dutch-PM-urges-Ukraine-to-stop-fighting-near-crash-site.html
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)If Ukraine can end the war by encircling Donetsk and cutting it and the crash site off from Russia in the next 24-48 hours by all means they should do so.
Most important thing is to end the war decisively.
reorg
(3,317 posts)Oops, that was 8 days ago. Now that the Ukrainian military is shelling the place, the forceful demands have withered away. A minute ago I thought I heard something, but it sounded like "meow" and was probably just the neighbor's cat?