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| Iran admits firing missile at airliner in 'disastrous mistake' – live news | Iran admits firing missile at airliner in 'disastrous mistake' – live news |
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| Tehran has said its military ‘unintentionally’ shot down a Ukrainian jet, killing all 176 people onboard, after initial denial | Tehran has said its military ‘unintentionally’ shot down a Ukrainian jet, killing all 176 people onboard, after initial denial |
| Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded Saturday that Iran punish those responsible for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner, pay compensation and apologise. | |
| “We expect Iran... to bring the guilty to the courts,” the Ukrainian leader wrote on Facebook, calling also for the “payment of compensation” and the return of remains, according to comments translated and reported by AFP. | |
| “We hope the inquiry will be pursued without deliberate delay and without obstruction,” Zelensky added | |
| He urged “total access” to the full inquiry for 45 Ukrainian experts, and in a tweet also sought an “official apology”. | |
| Our writers Luke Harding and Peter Beaumont have written the story of the final moments of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752. | |
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| A lot of U-turns on Twitter this morning. Iran’s ambassador to the UK, Hamid Baeidinejad, has tweeted his apologies for circulating misleading statements. | |
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| The head of the Ukrainian state security service (SBU) says Iran’s statement confirms one of his organisation’s working theories about what caused the crash. | |
| Contrary to what some experts had said initially, the SBU thought Iran’s anti-aircraft missile system had been operated manually rather than automatically, Ivan Bakanov said, according to Reuters. | |
| Bakanov’s statement came as the head of the airline operating the plane said he had been sure that it was not his staff who were at fault. | |
| We did not for a second doubt that our crew and our plane could have been the cause of this terrible, awful air catastrophe, Evgeniy Dikhne said on Facebook. “They were our best guys and girls. The best.” | |
| Iran has admitted that its military unintentionally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner as it flew from its capital, killing all 176 people onboard, after days of rejecting western intelligence claims that it had been hit by an Iranian surface to air missile. | Iran has admitted that its military unintentionally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner as it flew from its capital, killing all 176 people onboard, after days of rejecting western intelligence claims that it had been hit by an Iranian surface to air missile. |
| A military statement early on Saturday via state TV blamed “human error” for the downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 on Wednesday. It was followed by an apology from Iran’s president. | A military statement early on Saturday via state TV blamed “human error” for the downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 on Wednesday. It was followed by an apology from Iran’s president. |
| The downing of the airliner came in the midst of rising tensions between Iran and the US. Iran had just launched reciprocal rocket attacks on US bases in the Middle East after Trump ordered the assassination one of Iran’s top military leaders with a drone strike in Baghdad last week. | The downing of the airliner came in the midst of rising tensions between Iran and the US. Iran had just launched reciprocal rocket attacks on US bases in the Middle East after Trump ordered the assassination one of Iran’s top military leaders with a drone strike in Baghdad last week. |