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Ukraine fighter jet near MH17: Russia

India Blooms News Service | | Jul 22, 2014, at 04:52 am

#Ukraine fighter jet near MH17 Russia

Moscow, July 21 (IBNS) Russia on Monday said an Ukrainian combat jet was detected in close approach to the Malaysian passenger plane before it crashed in eastern Ukraine last week.

“An altitude gain was detected for a Ukrainian combat jet, supposedly a Su-25, flying at a distance of 3-5 kilometers [1.8-3.1 miles] from the Boeing,” Lt. Gen. Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the Main Operations Directorate of the HQ of Russia’s military forces, was quoted as saying by Ria Novosti.

“We would like Kiev to explain why a combat jet was flying almost at the same altitude and the same time with a passenger plane along the route dedicated for civilian air traffic,” the general underlined.

Meanwhile, the train carrying the bodies, who were killed in the crash, left Torez town.

"A Ukrainian train carrying bodies from the Malaysia Airlines plane crash has left the station of the town of Torez. Pro-Russian rebels controlling the crash site have agreed for the remains to be taken to the city of Kharkiv to be later flown to the Netherlands," BBC reported.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, carrying 298 people, was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed on Thursday in eastern Ukraine, near the Russian border.

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