The Ukrainian government has admitted that a blunder during its military
exercises destroyed a Russian passenger jet over the Black Sea this month,
killing all 78 people on board. “The most probable cause of the recent crash was
that it was hit by a missile launched during Ukrainian air defence exercises in
the Crimea,” Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma told the Interfax news agency
this week. The recovered wreckage of the plane points to a missile strike. Holes
in the hull and metal balls in the salvaged material are consistent with an
impact from an S200 missile, which is designed to…
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