Malaysian Boeing 777 MH17 shot down
According to Doneck terrorist leader Girkin (Strelkov) tweets, plane was hit down by his men. As it was announced before on 29/6/2014 terrorists occupied Ukrainian air defence unit near Ukraine border and have anti-air systems, including BUK (SA-11 Gadfly). Rocket was launched from cossacks' ataman Kozytsin positions. According to some experts, Russian aircraft with Russian tourists was expected to be shot down, to back further wide-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine after Crimea and East Ukraine
Among pasengers were more than 80 children,
Wreckage, body parts and burning debris were strewn over a 50 sq km area. The corpses of women and children lay around.
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Sources: wikipedia.org, unian.net, news.lv, interfax.ru, bbc.co.uk