From Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 509):

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me; deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.
Psalm 59:1‭-‬2

On this day 9 years ago (July 17, 2014), Russia shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over the East of Ukraine. All 298 people on board, including 80 children, were killed. Last year, the District Court of The Hague established that an aircraft was hit by a Russian-made Buk anti-aircraft missile system, transported from Russia to the temporarily occupied parts of the Donetsk region, where the Russia-backed criminals launched the missile. While the trial found three men guilty and sentenced them to life imprisonment in absentia…