Comment by lostlogin
15 days ago
> why it would matter what one country was known or not known to do.
It absolutely matters.
Flying over a war zone with known anti aircraft missiles is quite different to flying over a low level conflict that is using small arms only.
> Flying over a war zone with known anti aircraft missiles is quite different to flying over a low level conflict that is using small arms only.
What was in the news at the time, and the news are still linked from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas#Escalation_in_Ma...
2 June 2014: "Luhansk airstrike"
14 June 2014: "A Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76MD was shot down"
20 June 2014: "The insurgents [...] shot down a Su-25 bomber."
14 July 2014: "Ukrainian Air Force launched air strikes targeting insurgent positions across Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The Ukrainian government said that 500 insurgents were killed"
17 July 2014: "DPR forces shot down a civilian passenger jet, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17"
There was no war zone at that time.