Flight MH17 ‘shot down by Russian military missile’

International investigators have concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was downed by a missile belonging to a Russian brigade.Nearly four years after the plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine while en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, the Dutch-led team of experts say evidence shows “the missile had come from a unit based in western Russia”, reports the BBC.

May 29, 2018
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