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What happened on 8 January 2020?
Summary
A look back at a day that brought an air disaster near Tehran and the opening of a gas pipeline route.
What did 8 January 2020 bring for Ukraine and its neighbours? Two very different events marked the date.
Near Tehran in Iran, an aircraft of the airline Ukraine International Airlines (МАУ) crashed on 8 January 2020. A total of 176 people were killed.
The same day, the heads of state of Turkey, Russia, Serbia and Bulgaria formally inaugurated the TurkStream gas pipelines.
The two events were unrelated, but they fell on the same date: one a loss of life involving a Ukrainian carrier, the other a ceremony tied to gas transport in the wider region.
