Первые фотографии обломков от местных жителей — http://t.co/NWHuhMhe4U pic.twitter.com/BAAkTomKmm
— Илья Варламов (@varlamov) July 17, 2014
Dreadful and foreboding news: Malaysia Airlines Boeing with 295 aboard has been shot down over Ukraine, per Interfax. nytimes.com/2014/07/18/wor…
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Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) July 17, 2014Intended route of #MH17 http://t.co/fiBTxZ8m04 pic.twitter.com/IaUq0YCu2p
— Reuters Graphics (@ReutersGraphics) July 17, 2014
"Anti-terrorist operation" area was closed to civilian flights up to 7900 meters. The Malaysian airlines jet reportedly flying at 10,000 m
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) July 17, 2014
#MH17 flight was reportedly traveling at 10km, indicating a very advanced AA system would've been needed to shoot it down, @MillerMENA says
— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) July 17, 2014
Malaysian Airlines flight #MH17 reported to have been shot down by BUK-M1 [aka SA-11] surface-to-air missile system pic.twitter.com/UWwFifWhZr
— NATOSource (@NATOSource) July 17, 2014
Needless to add, advanced mobile air defense systems like the Buk/SA-11 are not in the inventory of most "rebel groups" in the world.
— John Schindler (@20committee) July 17, 2014
AP journalists saw similar launcher “near the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne earlier Thursday.” http://t.co/SGLt9nRfJG
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) July 17, 2014
Another video of the smoke rising from crashsite of downed airliner over Ukraine http://t.co/f0a0rbWAWY
— gandalf greybeard (@gerrydogma) July 17, 2014
From the prime minister of Malaysia:
I am shocked by reports that an MH plane crashed. We are launching an immediate investigation.
— Mohd Najib Tun Razak (@NajibRazak) July 17, 2014
#Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office: Policemen can't get to the crash site because the territory is under control of separatists
— Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) July 17, 2014
Further pictures from the #MH17 crash site in in Grabovo, #Ukraine #MH17 – @reuterspictures pic.twitter.com/efhvyWghPc
— Jack Stubbs (@jc_stubbs) July 17, 2014
.@Reuters reporter on the #MH17 crash scene sees burning wreckage, bodies on the ground
— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) July 17, 2014
There's only one side in the conflict in east Ukraine that has been shooting aircraft out of the sky.
— Mike Giglio (@mike_giglio) July 17, 2014
Flight #MH-17 #Torez #Donetsk #Ukraine by Nadezhda Chernetskaya pic.twitter.com/nrokR3svTU
— legionar🇸🇮 (@MatevzNovak) July 17, 2014
Don't want to rush to conclusions, but maybe arming bands of unaccountable rebels to destabilize your neighbor is a dangerous idea.
— David Klion (@DavidKlion) July 17, 2014
The thing with this standoff ever since Crimea was all it took was for one person to make one insane decision for all bets to be off.
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) July 17, 2014
An unconfirmed report:
https://twitter.com/strobetalbott/status/489809871475593216
Spoke to Ukraine separatist leader Tsarev. Says they don't have the weapons to take down #MH17. Hung up when asked about their BUK missiles
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) July 17, 2014
If the plane is shot down, which seems highly likely, the big question is by whom. Game changer for Ukraine-Russia conflict
— Olaf Koens (@obk) July 17, 2014
The Guardian is live-blogging.
