17:52 28.09.2016

Report on MH17 crash points to Russia's guilt

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Report on MH17 crash points to Russia's guilt

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the report by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), unveiling the results of an inquiry into the causes of the crash of a Malaysian Boeing in Donbas in July 2014, points at Russia's direct involvement in the downing of the plane.

"A new and extremely important element in today's report is the information on the route by which the weapon traveled from Russia to Ukraine and was taken back via part of the Ukrainian-Russian border, which was controlled only by Russians and their militants. This once again points to the aggressor state having been directly involved in the shooting down of the plane," the ministry said in a statement on the results of the investigation of the Joint Investigation Team into the downing of the MH17 plane in the skies over Donbas.

"In the course of the criminal investigation, all other possible theories and causes of this horrible tragedy were examined and dismissed. This put an end to all Russian attempts to discredit the efforts by the Joint Investigation Team and the results of the inquiry through the dissemination of distorted or fabricated information," the ministry said.

According to the report released by the JIT earlier on Wednesday, the Boeing was downed by a Buk surface-to-air rocket that had been brought to eastern Ukraine from Russia, and the attack itself was launched from an area in Donetsk region controlled by militants.

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