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C. Another Malaysian Airlines flight was lost in March 2014 after it took off from the capital of Kuala Lampur. Wreckage from that jet has been found in the Indian Ocean.
B. Russian maintained naval bases for its Black Sea fleet in Crimea after Ukraine gained its independence. But after governments of Russia and Ukraine had a falling out in 2014, Russia backed Crimean separatists who seized the peninsula and joined Russia. The annexation has been called invalid by the UN.
D. At different times all of these countries ruled parts of what is now Ukraine, the second largest nation in Europe behind Russia. The former Soviet Union ruled Ukraine before it became independent in 1991.
A. The Kyivan Rus was first established by Scandinavian colonists who were gradually assimilated by the East Slavs. Kiev was the capital of the loose federation of East Slavic tribes of the Rus, which are claimed as the cultural ancestors of the people of modern Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.