The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went down in Eastern Ukraine on 17 July with 298 people on board has very likely been shot down by a surface-to-air missile shot from the area controlled by Russian-backed rebels fighting the Ukrainian army. Moscow and the rebels denied any implication.

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