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18 July 2014, 6.17pm BST
MH17 was a victim of the new cold war?s first proxy conflict
Author Adam Swain
Associate Professor, School of Geography at University of Nottingham
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Adam Swain does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
It remains to be seen precisely how and why the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed over the territory of the self-proclaimed ?Donetsk People?s Republic? in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. But whatever the outcome, almost 300 lives have been lost as part of a piece of political theatre which now looks more like a crushing tragedy....
MH17 was a victim of the new cold war?s first proxy conflict
Author Adam Swain
Associate Professor, School of Geography at University of Nottingham
Disclosure Statement
Adam Swain does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
It remains to be seen precisely how and why the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed over the territory of the self-proclaimed ?Donetsk People?s Republic? in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. But whatever the outcome, almost 300 lives have been lost as part of a piece of political theatre which now looks more like a crushing tragedy....
?We don?t want this war?: Amid plane wreckage, villagers seek answers
Around site of downed aircraft in rural area controlled by pro-Russian separatists, residents witness scenes of horror
July 18, 2014 2:00PM ET
by Sabra Ayres
ROZSYPNE, Ukraine ? Larissa was working in the garden behind her house in this small, rural village when the bodies started falling from the sky and onto her rows of vegetables.
The first one tumbled and landed near the corn. Two more bounced off her neighbor?s roof and landed in the driveway.
?It was as if someone was pouring them onto us from a bucket in the sky,? she said. ?My first thought was that we were being bombed by the Ukrainians, but then I realized that they were bodies.?
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?This is a war between America and Moscow, and we are just hostages,? said Sergei, a miner who had been bused to the wreckage site with the rest of his shift to help with the cleanup. ?We just want federalization and to live peacefully, but no one is listening to us. This plane crash is just what America needs to start a war with Russia.?
A few miles away, where huge chunks of the plane side had fallen in the middle of a large wheat field, Vladimir Kopoyenko, 50, was inspecting them with two of his neighbors from the village of Petropalovka. He wasn?t buying Kiev?s claims that rebels shot down the plane with a missile system.
?I was sitting in the grass here yesterday, and I heard two explosions ? one long one and then one short one,? he said. The first explosion was from a Ukrainian fighter jet that was following the Malaysia Airlines plane and shooting at it, probably at Kiev?s orders, he speculated...
Around site of downed aircraft in rural area controlled by pro-Russian separatists, residents witness scenes of horror
July 18, 2014 2:00PM ET
by Sabra Ayres
ROZSYPNE, Ukraine ? Larissa was working in the garden behind her house in this small, rural village when the bodies started falling from the sky and onto her rows of vegetables.
The first one tumbled and landed near the corn. Two more bounced off her neighbor?s roof and landed in the driveway.
?It was as if someone was pouring them onto us from a bucket in the sky,? she said. ?My first thought was that we were being bombed by the Ukrainians, but then I realized that they were bodies.?
...
?This is a war between America and Moscow, and we are just hostages,? said Sergei, a miner who had been bused to the wreckage site with the rest of his shift to help with the cleanup. ?We just want federalization and to live peacefully, but no one is listening to us. This plane crash is just what America needs to start a war with Russia.?
A few miles away, where huge chunks of the plane side had fallen in the middle of a large wheat field, Vladimir Kopoyenko, 50, was inspecting them with two of his neighbors from the village of Petropalovka. He wasn?t buying Kiev?s claims that rebels shot down the plane with a missile system.
?I was sitting in the grass here yesterday, and I heard two explosions ? one long one and then one short one,? he said. The first explosion was from a Ukrainian fighter jet that was following the Malaysia Airlines plane and shooting at it, probably at Kiev?s orders, he speculated...
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