Ukraine knew Flight 752 had been shot down, but it was careful not to antagonize Iran

KYIV —Within hours of Iran’s stunning admission Saturday that its missile mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane, Ukraine made a big reveal of its own. The country put out photos, taken a day earlier, showing wreckage riddled with small holes, suggesting damage from shrapnel.

Well before Iran admitted shooting down Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752 outside Tehran on Wednesday, and before Ukraine realized the plane was destroyed by a missile. But the country’s leaders tread a careful diplomatic path.

The argument already didn’t exist for them to deny all this,” Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told The Washington Post.

Soon after the plane went down, killing all 176 on board, U.S. officials and the leaders of Canada and Britain told the world they believed the plane was likely shot down by Iran. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked them to share their information with him, but held off announcing any of Ukraine’s conclusions — a strategic decision, Danilov said.

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