mh17 — Blog — Michael Bociurkiw

WORLD BRIEFING: January 27, 2024

The International Court of Justice, in a historic ruling in The Hague, has ordered Israel to take emergency steps to prevent genocide in Gaza and to allow urgent humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territory. More than 40 senior former Israeli national security officials, celebrated scientists and prominent business leaders have sent a letter to Israel’s president and speaker of parliament demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be removed from office for posing what they say is an “existential” threat to the country

WORLD BRIEFING: January 26, 2024

Ukraine and Russia have contradicted each other over whether there had been proper notification to secure the airspace around an area where a military transport plane Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed, killing them and nine others on board. Israel and Qatar are in a major diplomatic spat over Gaza.

WAR IN UKRAINE: July 22, 2023

It was a relatively quiet night in all Ukrainian oblasts however Saturday morning in occupied Crimea was anything but with apparent targeted drone strikes on military facilities

WAR IN UKRAINE: March 15, 2023

Two Russian fighter jets engaged with an unmanned U.S. military drone over the Black Sea Tuesday, causing the American aircraft to crash. At least one dead and several injured after a Russian missile strike in central Kramatorsk

WAR IN UKRAINE: November 18, 2022

Ten million Ukrainians are enduring emergency power cuts after more Russian missile attacks, just as temperatures fall to freezing and below, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Of the four men charged in the downing of MH17, one was acquitted; the three others are unlikely to show-up to serve their life sentences.

WAR IN UKRAINE: November 16, 2022

Confusion remains over how a missile that appeared to be of Russian origin landed in Poland Tuesday, killing two people. One theory is that Ukrainian air defense systems created the explosion. Meanwhile, recovery efforts are underway from a massive Russian missile strike on Ukraine Tuesday, with some 100 missiles involved.

WAR IN UKRAINE: September 16, 2022

Ukrainian President Zelensky is pleading for more weaponry from European leaders. And in his first meeting with President Putin since the invasion, Chinese President Xi Xinping stops short of voicing public support for Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine

WAR IN UKRAINE: July 17, 2022

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the tragic strike in Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, which was downed by a Russian BUK missile over eastern Ukraine in 2014. Four suspects are being tried in the Netherlands over the mass murder of 298 innocent civilians