More from our news desk on the alleged recordings:
Ukraine's security services have published what they said were two intercepted telephone conversations that they said proved rebels were responsible for downing a Malaysian airliner.
In the first recording, the security services said, rebel commander Igor Bezler tells a Russian military intelligence officer that rebel forces shot down a plane July 17.
In the second, two rebel fighters -- one of them at the scene of the crash -- say the attack was carried out by a unit of insurgents about 25 kilometers north of the crash site.
Neither recording could be independently verified.
Ukraine's state security (SBU) chief Valentyn Nalivaychenko said, "We will do everything for the Russian military who carried out this crime to be punished."
BREAKING: Vice President Joe Biden said during a speech in Detroit that the jet was shot down, "not an accident, blown out of the sky."
Good morning, starting the live blog for another day. Here is our wrap from our news desk with all the latest on the crash of the Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine.
Good graphic from the WSJ:
Just a reminder of what Putin said last night after the crash:
Some decent analysis here. Joshua Keating argues in Slate that rather than being an Archduke Ferdinand moment, the downing of the plane might actually change very little.
Any smoking-gun evidence tying separatist rebels to the crash or the separatists to Russia will be spun and denied. The rebels will deny they shot down the planem and the Russian government—as it has continually—will deny that it is supporting the rebels.
There will be pressure on the U.S. to respond forcefully against Russia, but new sanctions were announced just yesterday. The high number of European casualties on the plane may spur calls for the EU to step up its sluggish response, but those measures were also already in the works.