[xzins]

This is what I wrote: This time in choosing to fly over a war zone, one can't doubt that the missile downing the airliner was an intentional act. Putin's hands are dirty with the blood of hundreds

So, I can definitely see your reading it as broadly as you did. I'm always amazed (afterwards) how unclearly I've written something that at the time I thought was clear.

[Mount Athos]

huh?

The way you wrote your sentence it says “no one can doubt that the missile downing the airliner was an intentional act.”

The plain reading of that is that they intentionally downed an airline.