MH17 crash: Plane believed to be shot down by BUK missile, says Ukranian interior ministry


PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian passenger plane that came down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday was shot down by a Buk ground-to-air missile said a Ukrainian interior ministry official.

The Buk missile system is a family of self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the former Soviet Union and Russian Federation.

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