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That had been transiting from russia, from these military facilities sites in southeast -- in western russia, sorry. in western russia to the separatists in ukraine? >> i'm happy to check that, but i also note that we don't have confirmation that that is the cause or the source of the plane being -- >> i understand that. but are these missiles that the ukrainians say were responsible for this plane, are those the types of missiles, apart from this incident, that you were complaining had -- that the russians had been sending into ukraine. >> i'm happy to check with our team an that information ...

Ground in that. but several ukrainian -- two ukrainian planes have been brought down earlier this week. so whether or not whoever brought down this plane realized it was a passenger jet, that is simply not clear. the intent is certainly not clear at this point. but the result, and you see the video of it right there, is very clear. 295 people on board. no word on the number of fatalities, though it would be certainly hard to imagine a plane being shut down at 33,000 feet that anyone could have survived. our nick paton walsh is standing by. as we continue to look at these images at what is piec...

Mostly about tanks. right now the white house isn't giving us any more information on their perspective of what they believed in terms of missiles or any surface-to-air capability flowing over the border. mostly ammunition and tanks. at least that's what they were talking about publicly at the time. again, this was in the last few weeks. but consistently throughout the months of this crisis and the u.s.'s involvement from afar, one thing that has been on the minds of officials here and in allied governments was the broader security threat. i mean, this particular situation or something like th...

Time to search, but we haven't had any reports of any potential debris from the plane being sided. it appears that some of the planes may finally be returning. so far, we haven't had much luck. we haven't heard either from the ships in the water. there are about nine ships and they are critical for hauling anything on board. they haven't reported anything either. they're still prepared to go out again tomorrow. >> when the investigators come and sort of brief everybody, is there -- do they feel discouraged or are they still sort of upbeat even though the area they're searching is so immense. >...

Lost and that none on board have survived as you will hear in the next hour. there's going to be a lot of talk about the prime minister's statement and how short they were and how little information was provided, wouldn't you say, ian? >> it's not a great way of putting across such a devastating piece of news. i'm trying to explain to a family that there is some rather abstract new technical model that shows that their relatives went down in the indian ocean is not something -- is not a great way of breaking news like this to relatives, especially in the absence of any physical evidence of the...