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Ukraine demands punishment for Iran plane downing

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Oleksandr Savochenko, Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/tvpatrol/01/07/20200111-boeing-737-800.jpg"/><figcaption>Relatives of the flight crew members of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed in Iran, mourn at a memorial at the Boryspil International airport outside Kiev, Ukraine on January 8, 2020. Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters</figcaption></figure></div>Ukraine on Saturday demanded that Iran punish those guilty for the downing of a Ukrainian airliner and compensate victims while praising Tehran for cooperating with the &quot;objective&quot; investigation.Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky was due to discuss the incident with his Iranian counterpart President Hassan Rouhani at 5 p.m. local time, his press office said.&quot;We expect Iran... to bring the guilty to the courts,&quot; the Ukrainian leader wrote on Facebook, calling also for the &quot;payment of compensation&quot; and the return of remains.Tehran admitted Saturday that it accidentally downed the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) plane, killing all 176 people on board on Wednesday, shortly after launching missiles at bases hosting US forces in Iraq.Rouhani said Tehran &quot;deeply regrets this disastrous mistake&quot;.Tehran has invited the United States, Ukraine, Canada and others to join the crash investigation.Kiev said that Iran had cooperated with its experts and it expects an objective probe.Tehran has handed Ukrainian experts enough data including &quot;all the photos, videos and other materials&quot; to show the investigation &quot;will be carried out objectively and promptly,&quot; Zelensky&#x27;s office said.&quot;The political part of the work is finished,&quot; it added.It published photos of experts examining the scene and close-ups of holes in the fuselage and shrapnel damage.Ukraine said Friday its experts dispatched to Iran had been granted access to the flight&#x27;s black boxes, debris from the plane, the crash site and recordings of conversations between the pilot and the airport control tower.Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine&#x27;s national security and defense council, which is coordinating the probe, told AFP Kiev did not yet have evidence on where the missile was produced, only that it was &quot;launched from Iranian soil.&quot;Zelensky said earlier that Ukraine hoped the inquiry would be pursued &quot;without deliberate delay and without obstruction.&quot;He urged &quot;total access&quot; to the full inquiry for the 45 Ukrainian experts, and in a tweet also sought an &quot;official apology.&quot;<div>&#x27;Absolutely irresponsible&#x27;</div>UIA chief Yevhenii Dykhne said at a press conference in Kiev on Saturday that Tehran should have closed the airport due to the escalation of tensions in the region following the US assassination of a top Iranian general.&quot;It&#x27;s absolutely irresponsible... if you&#x27;re playing at war, they were obliged to close the airport,&quot; Dykhne said.He wrote on Facebook that the Ukrainian crew and the aircraft &quot;were the best.&quot;Iran&#x27;s official IRNA news agency published a statement from the military saying the Boeing 737 was mistaken for a &quot;hostile plane&quot; at a time when threats were at the highest level.The majority of passengers on UIA Flight PS752 from Tehran to Kiev were Iranian-Canadian dual nationals but also included Ukrainians, Afghans, Britons and Swedes.Many in Kiev have compared the crash to the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 killing 298 people over eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists are fighting government forces.Moscow has denied the findings of international investigators that a Russian BUK missile hit the Malaysian flight.&quot;Iran has shown itself to be more civilized than Russia,&quot; pro-western Ukraine MP Volodymyr Ariev wrote on Facebook.&quot;Tehran has admitted its guilt in three days while Russia continues to try to get out of it.&quot;

"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.

"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.

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Ukraine demands punishment for Iran plane downing

Oleksandr Savochenko,

Agence France-Presse

Published Jan 11, 2020 09:31 PM PHT

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Updated Jan 12, 2020 01:44 AM PHT

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