Interfax is reporting that the plane was shot down:
Source: Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over Ukraine
MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - A Malaysian airliner was shot down
during a flight over Ukraine at an altitude of about 10,000 meters, an
aviation industry source said on Thursday.
A Malaysia Airlines Boeing was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala
Lumpur, the source told Interfax.
Interfax is reporting that the plane went down near Donetsk:
MALAYSIAN BOEING CRASHES NOT FAR FROM DONETSK WHERE FIGHTING TAKES PLACE BETWENE UKRAINIAN ARMY, MILITIAMEN - SOURCE
Still unconfirmed...
BREAKING: Interfax is reporting a Malaysian airliner has crashed in Ukraine near the Russian border. There are no further details and the report has not been verified.
From our news desk:
Russia's Defense Ministry has denied that it shot down a Ukrainian fighter jet and called the accusation by Kyiv "absurd."
A spokesman for Ukraine's National Defense and Security Council, Andriy Lysenko, said the Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet was brought down on the evening of July 16 "as it fulfilled its task over the territory of Ukraine."
Lysenko said the pilot was able to eject from the plane and was evacuated safely.
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said the claim "is absurd, just like all the previous accusations from Kyiv's leadership" against Russia's military.
Ukrainian officials have recently accused Russia's armed forces of direct involvement in the three-and-a-half month conflict in which the pro-Western government in Kyiv is fighting to crush an armed rebellian by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.