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Malaysia Airlines plane, which was downed on the east of Ukraine, was most likely shot down, Security and Justice Minister of the Netherlands Ivo Opstelten has said.

This information is based on the data from the Dutch special security
services, the minister said during a press conference in The Hague.

He told the journalists that the Netherlands should be part of the
international team that will investigate the crash site, and that he
hoped to provide more information about the probe later on July 18.

The minister promised that the Dutch group of investigators would travel to Kyiv very soon.