US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that “enormous amounts of evidence” indicated a Russian missile was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, while Britain said Moscow faced “pariah” status and the threat of further economic sanctions.
At the crash site, meanwhile, emergency workers started bagging dozens of bodies on Saturday; the remainder were removed on Sunday, with rescue workers using a crane to move wreckage to reach human remains trapped beneath. Empty, bloodstained military stretchers that had been used to carry the bodies lay beside the road.
Moscow denies involvement in shooting down the airliner and has blamed the Ukrainian military, but Washington and its allies point the finger at the pro-Russian separatists who have Moscow’s backing and have been accused of obstructing access to the crash sites.
In a blitz of US morning news shows, Mr Kerry demanded that Russia take responsibility for actions of allied separatists suspected of shooting down the passenger plane and he expressed disgust over the rebels’ “grotesque” mishandling of victims’ bodies at the crash site.
He also threatened “additional steps” against Moscow and called on European allies, who have lagged behind Washington in imposing sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, to take Thursday’s tragedy as a “wake-up call” to take a tougher stand against Russia.
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