A Malaysian passenger airliner heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 295 people on board has crashed in the vicinity of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk not far from the Russian border, Interfax reports Thursday night.
No one survived the crash.
The agency says the airliner was shot down at an altitude of 10,000 metres. This information has not been confirmed.
Interfax quotes a Ukrainian interior ministry official as saying that the passenger jet was shot down by a Buk ground-to-air missile.
Boeing 777 crashes near Russian-Ukrainian border
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