28 September, 2016

Russia Implicated in Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Over Ukraine - The New York Times

Russia Implicated in Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Over Ukraine - The New York Times:

UNITED NATIONS — A Dutch-led investigation has concluded that the powerful surface-to-air missile system that was used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine two years ago, killing all 298 on board, was trucked in from Russia at the request of Russian-backed separatists and returned to Russia the same night.
The report largely confirmed the already widely documented Russian government role not only in the deployment of the missile system, called a Buk, or SA-11, but the subsequent cover-up, which continues to this day.


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