You are angry. People died. Innocent children died. It is mind blowing stuff.
I blamed 'Putin' too, initially. Or rather i suspected he had something to do with it.
He probably has but i don't think for one minute he gave an ok to shoot down passenger jet MH17. If there was an 'ok' it came from Alexander Borodai. It would have been an 'ok' to shoot down a Ukrainian military cargo jet, as they had done weeks earlier.
The word 'accident' doesn't really fit very well for what happened. I don't know of a word that does. However i am sure MH17 wasn't intentionally targeted.
That doesn't make it ok. Russia has previous as does the US. That still doesn't mean that Putin goes around shooting down passenger jets.
So, what was Putin's involvement? I would say a loose connection. He has helped Borodai for sure. He sent arms and finances at the start. I don't think so much lately. Did he supply the BUK surface to air missile? I doubt we will ever know as it could have been stolen from the Ukrainians.
Therefore i think it is fair to say it is possible that Putin has some blood on his hands. I doubt we will ever know.
The only point i want to make is this: 56 Ukrainians went down in a military/ cargo plane in exactly the same way only weeks before. Those lives are just as important, just as meaningful as the Dutch, Malaysian, Australian and British lives on MH17. Didn't even make the news over here!