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EU urges Russia to accept responsibility for downing of MH17

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The European Council said ahead of the eighth anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 that it "expects Russia to accept its responsibility and to fully cooperate with efforts to establish accountability.” The MH17 flight was shot down on July 17, 2014 by a missile fired by Kremlin-controlled militants in Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.

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The Kyiv Independent’s Jared Goyette speaks with a Canadian volunteer, Brittney Shki-Giizis, who left the Canadian military to fight in Ukraine. A former tank instructor, she explains why she chose to come to the front, how she learned Ukrainian to serve in a Ukrainian unit, and how the war’s shift toward drones led her to become an FPV (first-person view) drone pilot.

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