Ukraine is to pay around Rb5.8 million ($200,000) compensation to every victim of its 2001 accidental missile shoot-down of a Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 over the Black Sea, with all on board killed. The state had agreed to pay that sum to each of the 40 Israelis killed, but under pressure from Russia's president Vladimir Putin has now agreed to pay the same sum to each of the 38 Russian casualties. The Grushin S-200 Angara (SA-5 Gammon) missile was fired at a target drone by the Ukrainian military during an exercise in Crimea, but it missed and locked on to the chartered Sibir Tu-154 instead, causing it to break up 6min after being struck.
Source: Flight International
