{"id":15408,"date":"2014-07-17T12:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/malaysia-plane-allegedly-shot-down-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:35:06","slug":"malaysia-plane-allegedly-shot-down-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/malaysia-plane-allegedly-shot-down-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Plane Allegedly Shot Down in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{A Malaysian airliner with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, amid allegations it was shot down.}}<\/p>\n

Dozens of bodies are scattered around what is believed to be the wreckage of the jet near the village of Grabovo, a Reporters said.<\/p>\n

Flight MH17 had been due to enter Russian airspace when contact was lost.<\/p>\n

Both the Ukrainian government and rebels have denied shooting it down in the region close to the Russian border.<\/p>\n

Russian separatists are believed to have shot down two Ukrainian military planes over the region in recent days.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has accused Russia’s military of supplying advanced missiles to the rebels.<\/p>\n

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak reportedly said he was launching an immediate inquiry into the crash.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to his US counterpart, Barack Obama, by phone about the crash, the Kremlin said in a statement (in Russian).<\/p>\n

“The Russian leader informed the US president about an air-traffic controllers’ report that came just before their phone conversation that a Malaysian plane crashed in Ukraine,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

{{‘Third downing’}}<\/p>\n

The plane fell between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighbouring region of Donetsk.<\/p>\n

Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying the plane had been hit by a missile at an altitude of 10,000m (33,000ft). The claim could not be verified independently.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian officials blamed the Russian air force for shooting down one of its ground attack jets on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Confirming the crash, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said: “This is a third such tragic event in recent days, when Ukrainian military An-26 and Su-25 aircraft have been shot down from Russian territory.<\/p>\n

“The Ukrainian armed forces did not attempt to shoot down targets in the air.”<\/p>\n

Separatist leader Alexander Borodai accused the government of downing the airliner.<\/p>\n

“Apparently, it’s a passenger airliner indeed, truly shot down by the Ukrainian air force,” he told Russia’s state-run Rossiya 24 TV broadcaster.<\/p>\n

The UK Foreign Office said it was aware of the reports of the crash and was “urgently working to establish what has happened”.<\/p>\n

This is also the second plane crash involving a Malaysian airliner this year, following the disappearance of Flight MH370 to Beijing in March.<\/p>\n

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