Investigators reach Ukraine jet crash site

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Source: AP-Excite

By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

ROZSYPNE, Ukraine (AP) — An international team of investigators in eastern Ukraine on Thursday reached the crash site of the Malaysia Airline Flight 17 for the first time.

Fighting along the route to the wreckage site between government troops and pro-Russian separatist rebels had for several days kept the delegation from reaching the area.

A rifle-toting militiaman at a checkpoint on the approach to the crash site at the village of Rozsypnoe allowed investigators clear passage, but fired a warning shot to keep reporters from proceeding any further.

The militiaman, who gave his name only as Sergei, told Associated Press journalists that fighting was still ongoing in Rozsypne.

FULL story at link.



The head of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission, acting Chief Observer Paul Picard, right, walks with Vadim Artyomov, deputy governor of Rostov region, left, while visiting the Gukovo border checkpoint at Russia-Ukraine border in a small town of Gukovo, 120 kms (75 miles ) from Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The mission will be based in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinskiy, in the Rostov-on-Don region. (AP Photo/Sergei Pivovarov)


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1. Guess he fired the warning shot because those pesky reporters are a big threat.

I'm sure they were all heavily armed and waving Ukrainian flags and such.

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2. One way they put it was that "they used a different route."

Meaning that they didn't get turned back quickly but got within a stone's throw of the site. Then they were allowed to go in and examine it for a while. "Limited time", the reports said.

That route should still be open tomorrow when they're start work in earnest.

As for the village of Rozsypne (which is a horrible name for village--it means something like "scattered" or "sprinkled about", and it was terribly and unmistakably intentionally ironic when one of the first RIA Novosti reports on the crash, with wreckage sprinkled or scattered about, came from Rozsypne.