Fresh violence leaves 12 dead and 32 injured in Ukraine

The calm and relative peace in eastern Ukraine has been subjected to the worst violence in more than a week with fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government troops in the region – the clashes led to the death of at least 12 people and injuries to another 32.
As indicated by Colonel Andriy Lysenko in a briefing to journalists in Kiev, at least nine troops were killed and 27 had been wounded during clashes in Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Luhansk yesterday.
In addition, the city council of Donetsk has gone online to indicate that at least three civilians were killed and five wounded in overnight shelling of a residential area in the northern part of the city. Here, the fighting had centered on the government-held airport.
Incidentally, in spite of assurances by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that his peace plan is working, violence has continued to rear its head despite a cease-fire declared on September. 5. Nearly 3500 people have died ever since fighting began in April.

Dutch report on MH17 crash attributes it to being struck by shrapnel

Dutch experts are finalizing the report on the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that broke up in mid-air in July after being hit by "objects" that "pierced the plane at high velocity" bbc.com.
This would be in accordance with evidence of images that shows the skin being pierced in a number of places by sharp objects - this matches claims that MH17 was hit by missile shrapnel.
All 298 people on board, most of them from the Netherlands, died when the plane was reportedly shot down by. The plane was en-route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed in rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
There were no emergencies on board, no mechanical problems, and the pilots did not make any mistakes, hence, the report rules out any technical or human error. The conclusion is based on cockpit data, air traffic control and images because the site of the crash in eastern Ukraine was too dangerous to access amid fighting between government troops and rebels.
The nature of marks noticed on the skin of the aircraft is consistent with how the BUK missile system works (that's the system many suspect was responsible) – they do not actually hit the target but explode in the vicinity and pepper it with shrapnel to attain maximum damage.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has welcomed the report and said that it "leads to the strong suspicion that a surface-to-air missile brought MH17 down".
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