President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called for his country's intelligence agency to determine what had happened and for an international investigation into the crash, while also accusing Russia of engaging in wartime propaganda over the episode.
Either way, the episode is a vexing challenge for a government in Kyiv trying to brace its citizens for a third year of war and contemplating a new mobilization that would likely be domestically unpopular. At the same time, Ukraine is on the defensive on the battlefield and striving daily to shore up critically needed Western support.
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