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The secretary of state, John Kerry, said on July 20 that all the evidence surrounding the downed Malaysian passenger plane pointed a clear finger at Ukrainian separatists.

Kerry appeared on all five major July 20 talkshows to lay out the administration's case against the separatists and to call on Russia to act and stop them from blocking an investigation into the firing of a surface-to-air missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines flight 17 on July 17, claiming 298 lives.

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