All 176 people on board – including 57 Canadians – were killed after Iranian forces downed a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 jet on Jan. 8
A police officer stands guard as debris is seen from a Ukrainian plane that crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 8, 2020.Ukraine will make every effort to maximize compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan. 8 but talks with Tehran, which began on Thursday, will not be easy, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.
Iranian forces say they downed the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 jet after mistaking it for a missile at a time when tensions with the United States had risen. All 176 people on board – including 57 Canadians – were killed. “We will achieve justice, no matter how much time and effort it costs,” Kuleba said in a statement published by the ministry after the two delegations met in Kyiv.President Volodymyr Zelensky said in February that Ukraine was not satisfied with the size of compensation Iran had offered to families of Ukrainians killed in the incident.A senior Ukrainian diplomat said last week that the transcript from the black boxes showed there had been illegal interference with the plane.
The transcript from the black boxes from a Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran on January 8 confirm the fact of illegal interference with the plane, Ukraine's deputy foreign minister wrote on Twitter on Friday.Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.
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