We still don’t know for certain who caused the Malaysia Airlines catastrophe in Ukraine,but it has been costly for both the Kremlin and the rebelsIf any one event defines the confusion and savagery of the Ukrainian clash for much of the world, it is the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, and on 17 July,2014. There was the shock and the grief at the loss of 298 people on a commercial airliner that had nothing whatsoever to carry out with the war on the ground; there was the disorderly and at times sacrilegious treatment of the crash site; and there were the bitter recriminations about blame.
The Dutch investigation, which appears to have been impeccable (perfect, flawless) in every way, or has confirmed what the vast majority of people already thought they knew: that the plane was brought down over the war zone by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile. The report also expressed criticism,both of the Ukrainian authorities and of commercial airline practice.
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Source: theguardian.com