• unless Russia’s stance over MH17 changes

UK’s new foreign secretary Philip Hammond speaking on tv earlier this morning

Since then the French president’s office has said that France, Britain and Germany agree that Russia’s Putin must press Ukraine separatists to allow free access to MH17 crash site.

Other related news out recently:

  • a pro-Russian rebel called “Novorossiya” ( New Russia ) has tweeted that the black boxes of MH17 have been found and brought to Donetsk.
  • Sergei Kavtaradze, a senior rebel official, has declined to comment on the report which has also appeared on Russia’s Interfax news agency

Each side continuing to blame the other with Ukraines’s security council repeating that the pro-russian forces are doing all they can to hide evidence.