RT News - July 18, 2014 (17:00 MSK)

Breaking news this hour. Malaysia Airlines says its ill-fated plane was flying lower than had been planned before crashing in Ukraine killing all 298 people aboard, after an alleged rocket strike. Overwhelmed with grief relatives struggle to come to terms with the tragedy, in which the majority of victims were Dutch nationals. And, The Russian Defence Ministry says it has been tracking signals from the Ukrainian army's radars and found that they were in use, and in range of the plane, at the time of the crash.