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Did Russia just down another passenger plane?

A scenario all too horribly familiar for the victims of MH17 played out this Christmas.

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Dec 27, 2024
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It took only hours for Russia to identify what hit the Azerbaijani passenger plane as it approached Grozny, the capital of Chechnya on Christmas morning.

Flight J2-8243 eventually crashed in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan — across the Caspian Sea – killing 38 of the 67 people on board.

‘According to preliminary findings, after a colli…

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