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Photos of a young and smiling couple are almost everywhere in the house of Silene Fredriksz and her husband Rob. Pictured are their 23-year-old son Bryce and his girlfriend Daisy. They died on July 17, 2014, when the Russian Buk missile shot down a passenger plane performing flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in the sky over Donbas. The tragedy killed 283 passengers (including 196 Dutch citizens) and 15 crewmembers. An international investigation concluded that MH17 had been shot down from a Buk missile system that belongs to the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces stationed in Kursk. Russia denies its involvement in the downing of the plane.

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