“I fully support the strong sanctions that the United States introduced earlier this week, and believe that the EU must now also stand firmly to ensure that there are consequences for these actions.

I am horrified by this tragedy. Russian separatists operating in Ukraine must agree to grant immediate, full access to the international inspectors. There must be an investigation of the how and why this commercial airliner was shot down, and if it is found that Russia or Russian-backed and supplied separatists in Eastern Ukraine committed this act, the responsibility must fall on Vladimir Putin, who has been supplying increasingly more sophisticated weaponry to the separatists and fueling this conflict.”