just gave them the weapons or trained them how to use them . you don t give sophisticated toys to thugs and over time expect it to turn out well. and putin at the end of the day putin is the guy responsible for what happened today. reporter: in the past week at least two ukrainian military aircrafts have been shot down in the hostile border region. on monday a ukrainian cargo plane. and just last night a ukrainian se coy fighter jet. yesterday president obama announced sanctions on the very russian company that manufactures the buk missile system, as well as seven other russian defense firms that make missile related armaments, they were sanctioned that was less than 24 hours before the malaysia airlines jet was shot down. the new sanctions angered vladimir putin. pentagon officials say in recent weeks they have tracked russian weapons and fighters moving into eastern ukraine, 10 to 12,000 russian troops were deployed to
just gave them the weapons or trained them how to use them . you don t give sophisticated toys to thugs and over time expect it to turn out well. and putin at the end of the day putin is the guy responsible for what happened today. reporter: in the past week at least two ukrainian military aircrafts have been shot down in the hostile border region. on monday a ukrainian cargo plane. and just last night a ukrainian se coy fighter jet. yesterday president obama announced sanctions on the very russian company that manufactures the buk missile system, as well as seven other russian defense firms that make missile related armaments, they were sanctioned that was less than 24 hours before the malaysia airlines jet was shot down. the new sanctions angered vladimir putin. pentagon officials say in recent weeks they have tracked russian weapons and fighters moving into eastern ukraine, 10 to 12,000 russian troops were deployed to
control. i would have another suggestion that there is a system called d dikrkum which would could be a heat seeking system. it called about $2 medical each million each to blind a guided system. spoofing the system would be not possible for dirkum. senator mark kirk calling for a stiffer position on sanctions as well as a wrongful death suit against the perpetrators. thank you so much for being with us. i want to bring in michael o handlin now. it s been a remarkable 24 hours in the world of international relations.
ukrainian government blamed for the shootdown of flight 17, they re pro-russian, but are they controlled by russia? what white house and intelligence officials say, the weapon likely used to bring down the plane was the surface-to-air missile. this is what we heard from the president earlier. and the russian-made system called the buk missile system, has turned up in this audio recording, we ll play it for you, but this sound comes from the ukrainiian intelligence, an cnn cannot confirm its authenticity. here it is. [ speaking in foreign language ]
plane flying on for a long way? no, possibly not. the kind of weapons that the could reach an aircraft at altitude, the sa-11 that ukrainian government ministry suggested it might have been, s-300, similar weapon have quite large warheads designed to do a lot of damage. a civil aircraft is not designed to take such punishment could have flown in varying states of damage before finally falling apart sop distance after the impact. edward hunt. shepard smith back in new york now. we can t know yet exactly what happened to the yet. we ownly know what authorities are saying and what the flight path indicates. the early indication this plane was shot out of the sky. is that confirmed? the answer is no. the intelligence agencies no doubt know exactly what happened by now because they have tracked it. but we don t yet know. we re awaiting specifics exactly