Volodymyr Zelenskiy to discuss investigation with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, has said on Twitter that he and the Ukrainian president have met with US embassy officials and obtained “important data” about the plane crash.
Prystaiko gave no further details but said the data would be “processed by our specialists”.
Разом з Президентом Володимиром Зеленським зустрілися з представниками США, зокрема із керівницею Посольства в Україні Крістіною Квін. Отримали важливі дані, які будуть опрацьовані нашими фахівцями. Очікуємо розмови @ZelenskyyUa з Держсекретарем США @SecPompeo о 15:00.
The Iran crisis is being followed closely in Germany. Three of the victims of the Ukraine airlines crash were German citizens, including Paniz Soltani, a 29-year-old scientist of Iranian-German citizenship, who worked at the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, and a 30-year-old woman of German-Afghan nationality and her children, eight and five, from the state of North Rhine Westphalia.
The national airline, Lufthansa, has cancelled all flights to and from Tehran until further notice. On Thursday night it ordered a plane from Frankfurt to Tehran to turn back as reports emerged that the crash had been caused by an Iranian missile. A spokeswoman for Lufthansa said: “Lufthansa flights from and to Teheran have been cancelled as a precaution.” She did not say when the ban would be lifted.