Ceremonies mark year since downing of Flight MH17

Residents of the Ukrainian village where a Malaysian airliner was shot down with 298 people on board a year ago began a procession to the crash site today, while the Australian prime minister remembered the “savagery” of the disaster by unveiling a plaque set in soil from the place the plane went down.

The two ceremonies came amid an escalating war of words over who was responsible for destroying the plane.