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Ukraine rejects Iranian conclusion of 'human error' in downed passenger plane

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down by Iranian forces in January amid their strikes on US military positions in Iraq.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said today that it is too soon to say whether the Iranian government’s position that Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was targeted by mistake is true.

“I want to clearly emphasize: It is early to say that the plane was shot down as a result of human error, as the Iranian side claims,” Kuleba said, as reported by Reuters. “We have many questions, and we need a large number of authoritative, unbiased, objective answers about what happened.”

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