Ukraine pledges to compensate Israelis for crash

Monday, October 29, 2001

KIEV, Ukraine -- President Leonid Kuchma has promised that Ukraine will compensate the families of Israelis killed when a Ukrainian missile accidentally shot down a Russian passenger jet, officials said Sunday.

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