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July 18th, 2014 
David Schulberg Redux October 2001: Ukraine admits missile may have downed Russian plane
‘A Ukrainian official today admitted that his country’s military may have mistakenly shot down a Russian commercial airliner over the Black sea last week, killing all 78 people on board.
The announcement by Yevhen Marchuk, the head of the Ukrainian security council and a member of the commission investigating the tragedy, marks the first time that the country has conceded it may be responsible.
“The reason for the crash could be an unintentional hit by an S-200 missile during the Ukrainian air defence exercises,” Mr Marchuk told a press conference today, adding that investigators would make their final conclusions after further, complex research.
The Russian chief of the investigative commission, Vladimir Rushailo, said today that the aircraft had been hit by an anti-aircraft missile, the Interfax news agency reported.’
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