Yes, it is getting worse still in Eastern Ukraine.

[reorg]

21. if you set aside your patriotic blinders for a moment

you might notice that Grad rockets are being fired by the Ukrainians, not by the US, but the US still openly supports a "government" of more than questionable legitimacy, a goverment that includes a fascist faction that is responsible for the massacre on civilians in Odessa.

As to who fired Buks, we have some data provided by the Russians, but so far nothing in terms of hard facts has been made available by the Ukrainians or even the ongoing investigation. Radio traffic, black boxes, satellite photos, all under wraps so far. Nothing that proves the allegation that Buks were spirited across the Russian border.

Given the size of these missile batteries – containing four 16-foot-long missiles – the absence of this evidence prompted caution among U.S. intelligence analysts even as senior U.S. officials and the U.S. mainstream media rushed to judgment blaming the rebels and Russians.

In making that case, Kerry and other senior officials relied on claims made by the Ukrainian government along with items posted on “social media.” These snippets of “evidence” included ambiguous remarks attributed to rebels who may have initially thought the shoot-down was another of their successful attacks on lower-flying Ukrainian military aircraft but who later insisted that they had not fired on the Malaysian plane and lacked the longer-range Buk missiles needed to reach above 30,000 feet.

If the U.S. intelligence analysts are correct – that the rebels and Russia are likely not responsible – the chief remaining suspect would be the Ukrainian government, which does possess Buk anti-aircraft missiles and reportedly had two fighter jets in the vicinity of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 at the time of the shoot-down.

http://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/03/flight-17-shoot-down-scenario-shifts/