Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte by telephone in the early hours of Tuesday to discuss an international investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
Russian Ambassador to Malaysia Lyudmila G. Vorobyeva said on Tuesday that accusations of Russia's involvement in the MH17 incident were groundless.
The international community should list the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 as an act of terror, the Ukrainian parliament said Tuesday.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warns of a potential cover-up in the investigation of the downed Malaysian Airlines MH17, lashing the "evidence tampering on an industrial scale."
A senior separatist leader, Aleksander Borodai, handed over black boxes from an airliner downed over eastern Ukraine to Malaysian experts in the city of Donetsk in the early hours of Tuesday.
Beijing welcomes the recently passed UN resolution on the recent crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine.
Russia's Defence Ministry on Monday challenged accusations that pro-Russian separatists were responsible for shooting down a Malaysian airliner over east Ukraine and said Ukrainian warplanes had flown close to the aircraft.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a ceasefire in Ukraine at her annual summer press conference on Friday.
The World Heath Organization (WHO) on Friday confirmed that one of its spokespersons, Glenn Thomas, died in the Malaysian airlines MH17 crash.
The Ukrainian authorities should be blamed for allowing a commercial jet to fly over a war-stricken territory, the Russian State Duma, or the lower house of parliament, said Friday.
A separatist leader said they were keeping what they presumed were black boxes from MH17 in Donetsk, but they would need experts to confirm it.Special
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that MH17 flight number would be replaced by MH19, which would take effect on July 25, 2014.
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