--- description: Four months after MH370 went missing, another horrific plane accident, leaving relatives of victims bewildered title: Watch: Obama Speaks Live on Ukraine image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bbf2f65d4df3cd4/69869c86cd804d0bc6ccc05e/screen-shot-2014-07-21-at-11-16-58-am.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch: Obama Speaks Live on Ukraine by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 21, 2014 2:49 PM CUT  by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 21, 2014 2:49 PM CUT Four months after MH370 went missing, another horrific plane accident took the lives of the 298 passengers onboard. President Barack Obama speaks about the hostilities between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip as well as the aftermath of last week’s shooting-down of a civilian jet in eastern Ukraine as pressure mounts around Russia ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3012716/watch-obama-speaks-live-on-ukraine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3012716/watch-obama-speaks-live-on-ukraine/"},"headline":"Watch: Obama Speaks Live on Ukraine","datePublished":"2014-07-21T14:49:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:15:31.752Z","description":"As pressure mounts around Russia and investigators begin to arrive on the scene, President Obama speaks about the Ukraine plane crash","url":"https://time.com/3012716/watch-obama-speaks-live-on-ukraine/","keywords":["Ukraine","Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bbf2f65d4df3cd4/69869c86cd804d0bc6ccc05e/screen-shot-2014-07-21-at-11-16-58-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0bbf2f65d4df3cd4/69869c86cd804d0bc6ccc05e/screen-shot-2014-07-21-at-11-16-58-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-07-21 at 11.16.58 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3012716/watch-obama-speaks-live-on-ukraine/","name":"Watch: Obama Speaks Live on Ukraine"}}]}] ```