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| Moscow Says Claims Russia Shot Down Ukraine Warplane 'Absurd' |
| 2014-07-18 |
| [An Nahar] Russia on Thursday dismissed as absurd Kiev's claims that it had shot down a Ukrainian warplane over its territory, a move that led to a fresh spike in tensions between the two ex-Soviet states. "This is absurd, just like all previous accusations against the Russian defense ministry by Kiev authorities," an unidentified high-ranking representative of the defense ministry told the Interfax news agency. For his part, Russia's U.N. envoy flat-out rejected the claim that a Russian jet had shot down the Ukrainian warplane. "We didn't do it," Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told news hounds at U.N. headquarters in New York. Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said on Twitter that a military plane from the Russian air force carried out a rocket strike on a Ukrainian airforce SU-25 over Ukraine on Wednesday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 and to Prof. Gate and Travone Martin. |
| Posted by: jack salami 2014-07-18 19:34 |
| #5 The president devoted more air time to addressing the LA Clippers owner debacle than he has to this. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2014-07-18 09:49 |
| #4 The was an incident (Korean Air Lines Flight 902) under Carter. Flight 700 was shot down under Reagan. The Soviets seem to have a penchant for such things. Reagan cut short his vacation and had a hard-hitting speech directed at the evil empire (Ruskies). A few years later, the USSR collapsed. Such things are not brought about from a position of weakness. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-18 09:18 |
| #3 I tell you that we wouldn't shoot down a civilian airliner--nyet, no way. (Don't worry Vlademir, the world has a short memory and has forgotten the Korean airliner we shot down when Carter was president. We don't have to worry; they again have another feckless president.) |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-18 08:58 |
| #2 Ambassador Vitaly Churkin's statement is certainly reassuring. I mean, if you can't believe a Russian Ambassador, who can you believe? And the so-called 'black boxes'...where were they sent again ? Crickets from Washington, DoD and the IC, no signatures warnings, no Federal crash investigation team statements, no Boeing statements.....or have I missed something? Appears we're following Vlad's standing orders to stay out of it. Nicely done POTUS, very fok'n nicely done. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-18 08:33 |
| #1 I mean, everybody knows those Malaysian Boeings fall apart, and sometimes wander off by themselves... (BTW, that was sarcasm. Secret Service vendors take note.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-07-18 07:50 |