Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he had a “very intense” phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday, in which he urged the Russian leader to use his influence over Ukraine’s separatists to help in the investigation of the Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine.
Rutte said he told Putin that he must “show the world” he intends to help.
More than half of the plane’s 298 passengers and crew — all killed in the strike — were Dutch. Rutte said he was “shocked” by images of rebels picking through victims’ possessions and walking around the crash site.
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Source: Voice of America
