Malaysia Airlines flight crashes in Ukraine
The Russian news agency Interfax have reported on Thursday that the Malaysian Airlines plane on its flight from Amsterdam of Netherlands to Kuala Lampur has been crashed in eastern Ukraine.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed that it have lost the contact with its MH17, and the flight’s last known position was over Ukrainian airspace, the airline said on Twitter. According to Interfax, the jet is a Boeing 777. The reportedly have went down near the border between Russia and Ukraine. Altogether 295 peoples were on board on from the Netherlands capital Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lampur.
Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was shot down by "terrorists" using the Russian anti-aircraft system Buk, Geraschenko told CNN. The plane was shot down near the town on Torez in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, he said. The plane was flying 10,000 meters above the ground, he said. Earlier, on his Facebook page, he said 280 passengers and 15 crew members were killed.
The Pentagon said Wednesday that Russia now had 12,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, as well as some heavy weapons. The troop numbers had fallen to about 1,000 previously from a high of an estimated 40,000 forces earlier this year.
