2014-07-17T180154Z_1867775722_GM1EA7I05JC01_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-AIRPLANE
A staff member sits behind a closed Malaysia Airlines desk at Kuala Lumpur International Airport July 18, 2014. A Malaysian airliner came down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

Hours after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 carrying 295 people crashed in eastern Ukraine around noon local time Thursday, the blame game is well underway.

While both Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Pazak announced their respective governments will be launching official investigations, there are still many unconfirmed details surrounding the crashed plane — believed to have been shot down -- and everyone is pointing fingers.

The flight left Amsterdam at 12:18 p.m. local time and was on its way to Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur before disappearing over Ukrainian air space, reportedly near the Ukrainian-Russia boarder. Though the investigations have yet to yield any information on how the plane came down, there is plenty of blame to go around.

However, there's little confirmed thus far, as governments have been slow to report new information.

Though there is one person taking responsibility: Igor Strelkov, the defense minister for the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, though no formal government has responded or given credence to this announcement.

Agence France-Presse has reported that all those aboard the downed Boeing 777 -- 280 passengers and 15 crew members-- are presumed dead.

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