The findings of the preliminary report of the Dutch Safety Board about the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 in eastern Ukraine coincide with the U.S. version of the tragedy, U.S. State Department spokesperson Marie Harf said on Tuesday.

" Today's preliminary report by the Dutch Safety Board underscores everything we've been saying since the downing of MH17, and it highlights questions for which Russia still must answer," Harf said at a briefing.

Washington earlier said that the Malaysian airliner was hit by a missile launched from the territory in Ukraine's east which was controlled by Russian-led insurgents. The rebels denied launching the missile and said they had no anti-aircraft equipment capable of hitting the target at such high altitudes.

The Malaysia Airlines MH17 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all the 298 people on board. The fatalities include 192 Dutch nationals (one of whom also had U.S. citizenship), 44 citizens of Malaysia (including 15 crewmembers), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, 10 from the United Kingdom (one of whom also had South African citizenship), four from Germany, four from Belgium, three from the Philippines, one from Canada, and one from New Zealand. The remains of 193 crash victims have been identified by now.

A team of Malaysian experts, including criminologists, photographers, weapons specialists, and others, are currently in Ukraine ready to arrive at the crash site.

The Dutch Safety Board published a preliminary report on an investigation into the MH17 crash on Tuesday, September 9, which says that the plane did not have technical faults and that its in-flight disintegration was caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated it from the outside.