Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. The other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. A lot to get you up to date on in this hour. President obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the Airline Crash in the ukraine. The priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. There has to be a credible International Investigation into what happened. The u. N. Security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. In order to facilitate that investigation. Russia, prorussian separatists
and ukraine must adhere to an immediate ceasefire. Evidence must not be tampered with. Inves
Informally dubbed FrankenSAM, the U.S.-Ukrainian joint project of integrating Soviet-era SAM launchers with Western-made anti-air missiles has achieved considerable success, Mykola Sunhurovskyi, head of military research programs at Razumkov Center, told NV earlier in November.
Another woman has died as a result of the attack on a market in the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, bringing the death toll to 17. Source: Oleksii Roslov, Head of Kostyantynivka City Military Administration, in a comment to Suspilne Donbas Quote: "Three injured people remain in Dnipro and four in Kostiantynivka.
The downing of the MH17 flight on July 17, 2014, is "one of the most terrible pages of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine," the Foreign Ministry said on the ninth anniversary of the crime.