LEST we forget, the Ukraine crisis had impacted us in a devastating way. On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down somewhere in Eastern Ukraine.
The commercial airliner was brought down by what was later established to be a Russia-made Buk missile. Subsequent investigations pointed to the fact it was fired by Russian-backed separationists in that part of Ukraine.
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