Russia Faces Sanctions Over MH17 Crash

David Cameron, the German Chancellor and the French President have agreed the EU should be ready to impose new sanctions on Russia.

EU foreign ministers will discuss the issue when they meet on Tuesday for the first time since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

All 298 people on board the Boeing 777-200, including 10 Britons, were killed when it came down near the village of Grabovo, in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.

Pro-Russian rebels have been accused of interfering with the site

A Downing Street spokesman said the Prime Minister talked about the need to secure access to the crash site with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande in a call on Sunday morning.

"They agreed President Putin has an important role to play by persuading the separatists to grant access and to work with the international community to ensure that all that needs to be done can be done as soon as possible.

"They also agreed that the EU must reconsider its approach to Russia and that foreign ministers should be ready to impose further sanctions on Russia when they meet on Tuesday."

The Prime Minister later spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Afterwards he tweeted: "I made clear he must ensure access to the crash site so the victims can have proper funerals."

Flowers left outside the Dutch embassy in Kiev

In a Sunday Times piece, Mr Cameron called for a "moment of action" in response to the disaster.

"The growing weight of evidence points to a clear conclusion: that MH17 was blown out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile fired from a rebel-held area," he wrote.

"If it is the case, then we must be clear what it means: this is a direct result of Russia destabilising a sovereign state, violating its territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias, and training and arming them."

Downing Street has confirmed Mr Cameron will make a statement about the plane attack in the House of Commons tomorrow.

Ukrainian government officials have accused Russia of supplying the rebels with sophisticated military equipment and have claimed the Buk missile launcher that is blamed for shooting down MH17 has been relocated across the border into Russia.

Mr Cameron had also criticised some European partners for not being willing to act against Moscow. 

"For too long, there has been a reluctance on the part of too many European countries to face up to the implications of what is happening in eastern Ukraine," he wrote.

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