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17 Nov, 2015

Offers $50 million reward

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At a Kremlin meeting, President Putin offers a $50 million reward for information leading to those responsible for the downing of the jet.

We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them.

Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s FSB security service, says traces of foreign-made explosive had been found on fragments of the downed plane and on passengers’ personal belongings, and that the bomb probably contained around 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of TNT:

You can definitely say that this is a terrorist act.