Ukraine Accuses - then Clears - Iran of Hijacking Plane in Afghanistan

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46% : Iran's Civil Aviation Authority on August 24 also denied that Iranians or any other people had "hijacked" a Ukrainian plane in recent days and flown it to Iran.
45% : Yenin's claim that unknown persons "hijacked" a Ukrainian plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport in recent days and flew it to Iran is "not true," Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko told the Ukrainian news site Hromadske on August 24.
37% : A unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps shot down a Ukraine International Airlines flight in January 2020 shortly after it took off from Tehran, killing all 176 people onboard the plane.
35% : A spokesman for Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday denied an earlier claim by Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevhen Yenin that Iran allegedly "hijacked" a plane attempting to evacuate Ukrainian citizens from Kabul, Afghanistan, in recent days.

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