Following Iran’s admission of shooting down Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752, the Kremlin nevertheless continued to deny Iran’s culpability, in part because accepting it would point toward the possibility that Russia shot down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine on July 27, 2014.
Flight PS752 disaster
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on Nov. 11, 2014 journalists look at parts of the Malaysia Airlines plane Flight MH17 as Dutch investigators (unseen) arrive at the crash site near the Hrabove village in eastern Ukraine, hoping to recover debris from the Malaysia Airlines plane which crashed in July, killing 298 people, in remote separatist-held territory east of Donetsk.
