MOSCOW:Russia on Saturday launched a blistering attack against Washington after US President Barack Obama said that a missile fired from territory controlled by Moscow-backed rebels downed the Malaysian Airlines flight over Ukraine. In his most extensive comments on the tragedy that killed 298 people aboard MH17 flight en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Obama said on Friday that evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine. READ ALSO: Russia helping rebels destroy MH17 crash evidence: Ukraine On Saturday, Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said the US administration sought to pin the blame on separatists and Russia without waiting for the results of an investigation. The statements of representatives of the US administration are evidence of a deep political aberration of Washingtons perception of what is going on in Ukraine, he told Russian news agencies. At least, that is how the relevant statements can be interpreted, the foreign ministry quoted him as saying. Despite an obvious and indisputable nature of the arguments provided by rebels and Moscow, the US administration is pushing its own agenda, he said.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:36:13 +0000
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