Ukraine struggles with tragedy, global conflicts – and its reputation
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Air disaster in Iran adds to feeling the country ‘has a dark cloud over it’, say observers
It only took a few hours of examining the crash site of flight 752 outside Tehran for a team of Ukrainian experts to ascertain that the Ukrainian Airlines jet had been brought down by a missile, security officials in Kyiv say.
In Ukraine, the tragedy has been met with a shocked sense of deja vu on two fronts. First, there are the inevitable comparisons with MH17, brought down over the east of the country by a Russian missile five years ago. But there is also an overarching sense of confusion over how – yet again – the country has been dragged into a conflict not of its own making. Continue reading...
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