Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, who called the emergency meeting, was more emphatic on assessing blame for the crash. And Ms Power it is likely that Russian military personnel were at the controls of the missile battery that downed the airliner.
Shortly they will determine that this was intentional — Putin giving the West the finger for its sanctions and saying that it was only a Malaysian jet this time but next time it might be Lufthansa or Air France.
The net effect of this incident is that Putin has forced European and Far Eastern carriers to now fly around Ukraine all together — costing them time and fuel and money and creating greater difficulty for east-west air travel.