{"id":54012,"date":"2014-07-17T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54012"},"modified":"2014-07-17T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T16:44:09","slug":"two-jets-succumb-to-gravity-in-the-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54012","title":{"rendered":"Two jets succumb to gravity in the Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like yesterday a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter was shot down by the Russians, according to Reuters<\/a>. It also appears that they may have shot down a Malaysian airliner over the Ukraine today, according to AFP<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam,” the airline, still reeling from the disappearance of flight MH370, said on its Twitter account.<\/p>\n

“The last known position was over Ukrainian airspace,” it said, promising more details soon.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said the jet may have been shot down.<\/p>\n

“We do not exclude that the plane was shot down and confirm that the Ukraine Armed Forces did not fire at any targets in the sky,” Poroshenko said in a statement posted on the president’s website.<\/p>\n

Regional officials in Donetsk confirmed the plane had come down near the town of Shaktarsk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No reports of the number of casualties yet, though.<\/p>\n

This all comes on the day that the US is planning new sanctions on Russia. According to the New York Times<\/a>, those sanctions are a bit more than the Euro-wienies want a part of;<\/p>\n

The announcement reflected a decision by Mr. Obama to take more stringent steps than those taken by the United States\u2019 European allies, which have far deeper economic ties to Russia. Meeting in Brussels, leaders of the European Union refused to match the American measures and instead adopted a more tempered plan that blocks new development loans to Russia and threatens to target more Russian individuals.<\/p>\n

The disparate moves suggested a widening gulf in the response to the crisis in Ukraine and may dilute the impact of the American actions. But both sides emphasized their continued solidarity on the basic demands that Moscow halt the flow of fighters and weapons across the border with Ukraine, support a cease-fire and help facilitate the release of hostages held by pro-Russian separatists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think the Russians see a downside to anything they do now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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