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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has opened criminal proceedings under Article 258 of the Criminal Code (terrorist attack) due to the crash of a Malaysian aircraft in Donetsk region on July 17.

“Criminal proceedings have been opened under the article ‘terrorist attack,'” the SBU press center told Interfax-Ukraine.

As reported, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 298 people from
Amsterdam (the Netherlands) to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) crashed in
eastern Ukraine on Thursday, July 17.