The national postal operator of the Netherlands, company PostNL expressed regrets regarding the issuing of the stamp drawing the analogy between the FIFA World Cup in Russia and the tragedy of the Malaysian Boeing MH17 crash in 2014. This was reported by Nederlandse omroep stichting agency.
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In this file photo taken on Sept. 9, 2014 shows part of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 at the crash site in the village of Hrabove (Grabovo), some 80km east of Donetsk.