
Australia and the Netherlands are among the countries officially marking the tenth anniversary of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17's downing, an incident that claimed 298 lives when pro-Russian separatists shot down the plane over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, a Boeing 777 traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was downed over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile.