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> why it would matter what one country was known or not known to do. It absolutely matters. Flying over a war zone with known anti aircraft missiles is quite
by lostlogin 9mo ago
> why it would matter what one country was known or not known to do.
It absolutely matters.
Flying over a war zone with known anti aircraft missiles is quite different to flying over a low level conflict that is using small arms only.
- fluder_tw 9mo agoThere was no war zone at that time.
- kubanczyk 9mo ago> Flying over a war zone with known anti aircraft missiles is quite different to flying over a low level conflict that is using small arms only. What was in the news at the time, and the news are still linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas#Escalation_in_May_and_June_2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas#Escalation_in_Ma... 2 June 2014: "Luhansk airstrike" 14 June 2014: "A Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76MD was shot down" 20 June 2014: "The insurgents [...] shot down a Su-25 bomber." 14 July 2014: "Ukrainian Air Force launched air strikes targeting insurgent positions across Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The Ukrainian government said that 500 insurgents were killed" 17 July 2014: "DPR forces shot down a civilian passenger jet, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17"