Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast
village in Chystiakove Hromada, Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hrabove (Ukrainian: Грабове; Russian: Грабово, Grabovo) is a village in Shakhtarsk Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine.
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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]