Power, influence, and resources count. for its part, russia has denied any involvement in the crash. president putin is calling for a thorough and objective investigation into the disaster. the russian foreign minister spoke by phone saturday with u.s. secretary of state john kerry. they agree all evidence from the plane, including the black boxes, should be made available to investigators and experts should be allowed to access the site. the pressure is on now for the crisis in eastern ukraine to be resolved quickly and peacefully. secretary of state john kerry will be the guest on state of the union. you ll see it only here on cnn. > the ukraine uses pro-russian
They re moving forward. but a very difficult time for so many people here, obviously. the government has sent teams into kiev, but malaysia does not have a lot of power on the international stage. it can t force the main players in this to move any more quickly to get a safe corridor to the crash site, which is very frustrating for everybody here. andrew, thanks for that update. you know, john, it s incredible to me in the first instance we had the missing plane. in this case too, you have all these relatives thinking what is happening to my loved ones. they re in there in a field. who is providing for their dignity? there is a lot of frustration right now in malaysia. we re seeing that come out in the tone. we re hearing from the president of the malaysia airlines union saying this is essentially murder. we re hearing the government come out much more forcefully
Everywhere, but there is also the more personal. giving little insights into the lives of those who fell with the plane. these were people from around the world with no connection to the ukraine s conflict. their positions are marked with sticks and white cloth. mo pro-russian militants are in control here. some show curiosity, but there s no obvious intense of recovering the bodies or securing the aircraft. this is a strange eerie experience, walking through the debris field over the passenger jet, the remains of its crew and passengers are everywhere and yet there is no one here trying to work out what happened. no one here to take responsibility for this. the militants leaders say they are not altering the site to it remains intact for investigators
Quickly right after the incident. everything right now indicates this was a mistake. they didn t know what they were shooting at. the rebels thought it was a ukrainian military plane, a cargo plane. if they were using this equipment correctly, is that mistake possible? not really. the fact they shot a civilian airliner is very troubling, but they re probably not using the entire system. it consists of four components. one of those components is an air surveillance radar. that s capable of determining what your target is, whether it is a civilian aircraft or not. it has a transponder that would receive the code from the aircraft that would say, i m a
Outside force. malaysia this time is not grappling with a mystery, but a victim demanding answers. this outrage cannot go unpunished. once again malaysia condemns this brutal act of aggression and calls for those responsible to be found and to face the full force of justice without delay. reporter: the clarity of what happened in this crash doesn t make it any easier say grieving friends and family. they say it is simply different. cnn. of the nearly 300 people that died on flight 17, 43 were from malaysia, including the crew of 15. andrew? reporter: thanks very much. we enter day four since that plane was downed. the shock and the grieving is still very much in evidence here