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At a press conference in Kiev, the Ukrainian government announced that it had definitive proof that Russia shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 with surface-to-air missiles. From the Times:

At a news conference in Kiev, Vitaly Nayda, the head of counterintelligence for the Ukrainian State Security Service, displayed photographs that he said showed three of the Buk-M1 missile systems on the road to the Russian border. Two of the devices, which are missile launchers mounted on an armored vehicle, crossed the border into Russia at about 2 a.m. Friday, or less than 10 hours after the jet, Flight 17, was blown apart in midair, he said. The third weapon crossed at about 4 a.m.

The investigation into the crash seems to be increasingly hindered by the presence of pro-Russian separatists who have reportedly been moving pieces of evidence around, including bodies, pilfering the belongings of the departed, and obstructing the investigation.

A gunman named after one of the Seven Dwarves from Snow White blocking OSCE convoy. #MH17 investigation in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/lwaNjmGomY — max seddon (@maxseddon) July 19, 2014

Meanwhile, the Malaysia Airlines released the manifest with the names and nationalities of all the passengers on board.

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83-year-old Sri Siti Amirah, the step-grandmother of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, was reportedly aboard Malaysia Airline Flight 17 when it not-so-mysteriously crashed in eastern Ukraine. According to the Telegraph, this was confirmed by Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, who is the prime minister's cousin and also the step-grandson of Siti Amirah:

The defence minister's tweet confirmed an earlier report in the Star newspaper that said Siti Amirah had embarked alone in Amsterdam on board flight MH17 en route to the Indonesian city of Jogjakarta.

Amirah was reportedly on her way home from Amsterdam to celebrate the end of Ramadan when the plane was seemingly brought down.