Ukrainian government forces relentlessly bombarding civilians in east Ukraine and blaming it on Russian aviation

Shameless!

I keep wondering if the Canadian government will do the same to the citizens of Quebec when they finally decide to make Quebec into a country.  

I am also wondering if Malaysian Airlines  would  have still continued flying over the conflict region if the MSM had not thrown a blanket on the civil war happening in Ukraine.  Many of the world's countries pick up news from the main news outlets of the West and if the media in the West was doing its duty to give the news as is their mandate,  more people around the world, including Malaysia Airlines  would have known to give that particular airspace a wide berth.  IMO, the MSM is partly to blame for the deaths of almost 300 passengers of the Malaysia MH17 flight.

From AP via Yahoo:
Airstrike in eastern Ukraine kills 11 civilians. 
An airstrike in eastern Ukraine sent an apartment building crumpling to the ground Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and adding to the steadily mounting civilian death toll from the fighting between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents.

Rebels pinned the attack on the Ukrainian air force. The government swiftly denied blame but was not immediately able to offer an alternative explanation.



The bombing in the rebel-held town of Snizhne demonstrated how airstrikes and heavy rocket fire are becoming increasingly common as the conflict drags into its fourth month. The attack comes one day after a Ukrainian military transport plane was shot down in disputed circumstances.

The devastation in Snizhne bore signs of a strike by several missiles and left only a mountain of smoking debris. The four-story apartment block appeared to have been hit in two separate spots, causing the collapse of several tiers. A nearby house was also destroyed.



Resident Igor Chernetsov lost his wife in the attack. "I heard an explosion, and suddenly I was thrown out of the apartment, out of the fourth floor," said Chernetsov, his head swathed in a bandage. "I woke up covered in dust and had no idea what had happened."

Health officials in the Donetsk region, which includes Snizhne, provided the number of dead. Rescue workers pulled a small child with broken legs alive from the rubble as grieving residents sifted for belongings. An Associated Press reporter counted six large impact craters.



Dmitry Tymchuk, a military analyst who coordinates closely with Ukraine's Defense Ministry, said that since rebels are unlikely to have any planes capable of conducting the bombing, there could only be one explanation.

"Only Russian aviation could have performed the airstrike on Snizhne," he wrote on his Facebook account.

The Defense Ministry stopped short of that claim but insisted the bombing could not have been carried out by the air force as none of its planes were on sorties at the time of the strike.



Security Council spokesman Andrei Lysenko called the incident a "cynical and bloody provocation" aimed at discrediting the armed forces.

Sergei, a rebel commander at the scene who declined to give his surname, said locals bore witness to Ukrainian involvement.

"Many local citizens saw the plane that dropped the bomb — it had Ukrainian markings," he said. "Why Ukraine would bomb its own territory is harder for me to say."

No reliable official recent death toll has been produced, but hundreds of civilians are believed to have been killed so far in the conflict. Authorities said Tuesday that 258 servicemen have been killed in fighting and 922 injured.

Representatives for the separatist Luhansk People's Republic said that 12 more civilians were killed Monday evening in the eastern city of Luhansk following rocket attacks and airstrikes. It was not immediately possible to verify those claims................