HRABOVE, Ukraine - One year ago, Malaysian Airlines flight 17 crashed in a bucolic field in eastern Ukraine, the 298 passengers aboard becoming sudden casualties of a remote but brutal conflict. I was covering the fighting between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists and, being nearby, was able to get to the crash site soon after.
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A person walks next to a crucifix partially destroyed by a shrapnel on a road on April 23, 2015 near the site where the bulk of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky near the village of Grabove in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
