MH17 shot down over Ukraine

July 17, 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people aboard, was hit by a Russian-made Buk missile fired from Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. All on board died, including eighty children. Sunflower fields filled with debris and bodies. The war in Donbas suddenly had a global audience and a demand for accountability.