WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the missile attack that downed a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine as an “outrage of unspeakable proportions” but stopped short of blaming Russia directly for the tragedy.
A day after flaming wreckage and mangled bodies rained down on wheat and sunflower fields near the city of Donetsk, U.S. officials identified a lone American victim, a U.S.-Dutch citizen, among the 298 who perished.
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