2014 World Events · Annexation, territorial jihadism, and platform influence
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down
A civilian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 aboard.
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What this is
A specific-event record selected from the protected World Events source ledger for cross-year research. It is not an exhaustive account of 2014.
Why it matters
It internationalized the Donbas war and intensified sanctions pressure on Russia.
What is established here
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What remains uncertain
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Record narrative
Source-bounded summary
A civilian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 aboard.
It internationalized the Donbas war and intensified sanctions pressure on Russia.
Structured fields
Record at a glance
- Stable record ID
- 2014-004
- Date or period
- 2014-07-17
- Type
- War-related aviation shootdown
- Focus
- Military / aviation
- Impact scope
- Global
- Priority
- 5 of 5
- Location label
- Donetsk / eastern Ukraine, Ukraine
- Coordinate precision
- City-level coordinate
- Actors named by the source record
- Russian-backed separatists accused; passengers; Ukraine; Netherlands-led investigators
- Verification state
- source-start-point; sensitive details require independent verification
Geographic context
A coordinate locator, not a surveyed event footprint
The submitted record supplies 48.0159, 37.8029 with the precision label “City-level coordinate.” Multi-location events, disputed borders, campaigns, and broad regions cannot be reduced to one point.
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2IA — International Intelligence Archive. “Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down.” World Events record 2014-004. Reviewed July 27, 2026. https://2ix.org/world-events/2014/2014-004/