Last week, Ihor Kovalenko had ill feelings towards Iranians, because their government launched an errant missile that downed a Ukrainian passenger plane with 176 people aboard.
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This photo taken and released by the Ukrainian presidential press service shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky placing flowers at a memorial for the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crash in the Iranian capital Tehran, at the Boryspil airport on Jan. 9, 2020.