RENTON, Wash. -- The crash hits home for the tens of thousands
of Ukrainian Americans living in Washington state, who have
watched the conflict tear apart their homeland. And now many of
them hope the Malaysian Airlines crash will bring about change.
At the Ukrainian Community Center of Washington in Renton,
executive director Oleg Pynda shares the news of the crash to a
group of seniors. Many of them have lived in this country for
years, but their hearts ache over the conflict in their
homeland.  Crimea was taken away, but nobody cares, said Pynda.
Now eastern Ukraine is under fire, nobody cares.  Pynda says as
tragic as the loss of life was in this crash, it may get the
world to focus more attention at the hostile region of Ukraine.
Pro-Russian separatists have been fighting Ukrainian security
forces there for months.  To look at what is happening in the
Ukraine and the rest of the world trying to close their eyes,
said Pynda. Now they open it up because 300 people have been
killed, but what next? Are they