C hief Military Prosecutor: Attack on Ukrainian expert aimed to prevent him from speaking on MH17 downing
The aim of the attempt on the life of director of Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Examinations Oleksandr Ruvin, who is involved in an inquiry into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 Flight MH17 in Donbas, was aimed at preventing his scheduled report in the Netherlands about the circumstances and causes of the crash, Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine - Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoly Matios has said.
"On November 23, 2015, Ukraine's representative and chief expert Oleksandr Hryhorovych Ruvin was to make a final report on the circumstances and causes of the Boeing 777 crash was to announce the findings of Ukrainian experts, submit the materials of the research by Ukrainian experts to the representative of the Netherlands in the Hague at a meeting of leaders of expert institutions – participants in the international criminal investigations... five days prior to this, head of the expert group Ruvin was attacked in the evening of November 18, 2015 as he was returning from a regular meeting of experts during the preparations for the international meeting," Matios said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.