. - Russian missile smuggled to Ukrainian separatists. - Russian backed militia in Ukraine were to blame. - US government officials confirmed to media outlets that a surface-to-air missile brought down the plane. - White house to Putin take concrete steps for de-escalation. - Hillary Clinton: put [Vladimir] Putin on notice that he has gone too far and we are not going to stand idly by! - Tony Abbott: demanded that Russia explain the disaster as it “now seems certain it’s been brought down by a Russian-supplied surface-to-air missile”. - Pavlo Klimkin Ukrainian army did not have such missiles in the area, and said none had been seized by separatist fighters in recent weeks. - Liow Tiong Lai MH17 was following the right route on the right path. - The European air traffic control body, Eurocontrol, said Ukrainian authorities had banned aircraft from flying at 32,000ft or below and the doomed aircraft had been cruising above that, at 33,000ft. - Putin chaired a meeting on the Russian economy which began with a minutes silence and laid the blame for the crash at Ukraines door: Casualties: 173 Dutch nationals on board the plane, along with 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, nine passengers believed to be from the UK, four each from Germany and Belgium, three from the Philippines, one Canadian and one from New Zealand. The nationalities of 20 passengers have not yet been verified. A group of international HIV/Aids experts flying to Melbourne were among those killed. war
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