The sordid drama continues. The investigation into the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash hasn't reached anywhere, at least officially, even a month after it blew up into pieces. The Western powers, led by the United States, have intensified their diatribe against Russia. The G7 has imposed fresh sanctions on Moscow, condemning "Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea, and actions to destabilize eastern Ukraine" because those actions "are unacceptable and violate international law". The G7, comprising the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan, has demanded "a prompt, full, unimpeded and transparent international investigation" into the downing of MH17 and called "upon all sides to establish, maintain and fully respect a cease-fire at and around the crash site ... so that the investigators can take up their work ..."

Indeed, a cease-fire was declared after the downing of MH17 and the rebels fighting Ukrainian forces granted access to international investigators to the crash site in Donetsk. The rebels even handed the two black boxes of the plane to the investigators.

Still the G7 said on July 30 that it wanted a "prompt" investigation. In doing so, it conveniently ignored the fact that the government in Kiev, supported by the US and the European Union, has escalated military operations in the region and that the military operations blocked access to the crash site from July 27 to 30.