BEIJING: President Vladimir Putin and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday urged a quicker probe into the MH17 crash but the two leaders appeared to avoid diplomatic butting of heads, the Kremlin said.
Abbott had famously vowed to “shirtfront” Putin — an Australian Rules football term in which a player charges an opponent — over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July, in which 298 people died in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.
“The catastrophe of the Malaysian airliner was the main topic of discussion between Vladimir Putin and Tony Abbott,” the Kremlin said in …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
