MH17 Ukraine plane crash: 'Key witness' released

On 17 July 2014, the jet was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was was hit by a missile over eastern Ukraine. All 298 people on board died. The downing of the aircraft came amid intense fighting between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine. Some 13,000 people have died in the conflict over the last five years. A team of international criminal investigators said in 2016 that the missile had been fired from a field controlled by Russian-backed separatists (www.fbcnews.com.fj) Más...