Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast
village in Chystiakove Hromada, Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Hrabove (Ukrainian: Грабове; Russian: Грабово, Grabovo) is a village in Shakhtarsk Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine.
According to the 2001 census, 1,000 people were living there.
On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down and crashed into a field near Hrabove. All 298 people on board died. The flight was meant to go from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[1]
References
change- ↑ "Malaysia Airlines plane crashes on Ukraine–Russia border". The Daily Telegraph. 17 July 2014. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
Other websites
change- Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Shakhtarsk Raion (in Ukrainian)
48°08′45″N 38°38′54″E / 48.14583°N 38.64833°E
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