Vigil held at MH17 crash site marks 10th anniversary

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People on Wednesday (July 17) laid flowers and brought toys to a memorial in a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 plane crash near Hrabove in Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00People on Wednesday laid flowers and brought toys to a memorial in a ceremony marking the

00:0810th anniversary of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plane crash near Hrabov in Russian-controlled

00:16Donetsk region of Ukraine.

00:18MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down on July 17, 2014, by

00:25a missile fired from territory held by pro-Russian rebels during fighting in eastern Ukraine,

00:32international investigators say.

00:34All 298 people on board were killed, two-thirds of them Dutch nationals.

00:46After years of collecting evidence, a Dutch-led international joint investigation team last

00:51year said the missile launcher used to hit the civilian airplane came from a Russian

00:56army base just across the border.

00:59Russia has denied any involvement with the downing of the civilian airliner.

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