Diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia, are set to get worse, after a Malaysian passenger plane was alleged shot down by Russian backed separatists in the Ukraine today.
Since this year, there’s been a running gun battle between Russia and the Ukraine over the former’s annexation of Crimea.
A senior US official has confirmed that radar images show the Malaysian Airlines, flight MH 17 passenger jet carrying 295 people en route to Malaysia from Amsterdam was hit by a missile.
The UK Daily Telegraph reports that 23 Americans were on board, 9 Britains, and 154 Dutch.
Already, the political rhetoric is ratcheting up, as the US has imposed sanctions on Russia.
While Russia says it considers the latest package of sanctions against it by the US as revenge for the failure of Washington’s schemes in the Ukraine. Moscow says it reserves the right to retaliate.
Senator John McCain weighing in on the downed Malaysian airlines said there’d be hell to pay, if the play was shot down.
Senator John McCain, speaking with MSNBC today.
Speaking moments after the crash in Delaware, US President, Barack Obama, said the world is watching the developments.
He called the downing of the plane a ‘terrible tragedy’.
Both the Ukrainian government and rebels have denied shooting the plane down.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko described the crash as a “terrorist action.”
The BBC’s Janet Barry reports.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today sat down with Veteran US media practitioner, Charlie Rose.
Clinton told Rose that the suspected shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines jet causes a “great deal of concern” not only over the loss of life, but over “the continued conflict in Ukraine, and the role Russia is playing.”
Here is what she said:
