Ukraine PM, blaming Russia, says experts, not 'drunken gorillas' downed plane


  • World
  • Saturday, 19 Jul 2014

BERLIN (Reuters) - It takes professionals to shoot down an airliner and not a group of "drunken gorillas", Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk told a German newspaper on Saturday, claiming that Russia was behind the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH-17.

"Very professional staff is needed to find targets and fire this missile," he said in an interview to be published on Sunday in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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