Kerry calls on Russia to take action after Malaysia plane downing
Kerry said the United States has seen major supplies moving into Ukraine from Russia in the last month, including a 150-vehicle convoy of armoured personnel carriers, tanks and rocket launchers transferred to the separatists several weeks ago.
"It's pretty clear that this is a system that was transferred from Russia," Kerry said in an interview on CNN.
Kerry said the United States intercepted conversations about the transfer to separatists of the Russian SA-11 radar-guided SA11 missile system it blames for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on Thursday.
Moscow accuses the Ukrainian military in the shoot down that killed 298 people. Kerry's remarks reflected Washington's growing anger with Russia over the crash.
In appearances on a string of Sunday news shows, Kerry called on Moscow to publicly seek responsible action from the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine, including access to the crash site.
"The separatist are in control," Kerry said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. "And it is clear that Russia supports the separatists, supplies the separatist encourages the separatists trains the separatists and Russia needs to step up and make a difference here."
Kerry, who spoke to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in a phone call on Saturday, expressed outrage over the chaotic scenes in the aftermath of the crash. He said foreign investigators have been given only limited access to the crash site, 75 minutes on Friday and three hours on Saturday, despite the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin had promised unfettered access.
"Drunken separatists have been piling bodies into trucks and removing them from the site," Kerry said on NBC. "What's happening is really grotesque and it is contrary to everything president Putin and Russia said they would do."
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He get's angry about this but not about the hundreds of Palestinians who get killed daily. They would have been speaking out about that if they REALLY valued human life. It is only evident that they are least bothered about the people killed and are only pressing Russia for personal interest. HYPOCRITES!!
Who knows it wasn't a high level conspiracy to down Putin's plane which was also in the same aerospace around the same time ? Might be it was a failed plan and poor Malaysian airways paid the price. Nothing can be ruled out in this crooked world.