A top pro-Russian separatist commander in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday denied Dutch findings blaming the downing of Flight MH17 on a Russian missile fired from rebel-held territory.
“The forces of the People’s Republic of Donetsk could not have fired at the plane from a BUK system because we have no such sort of weapons,” general Eduard Basurin of the self-proclaimed republic told AFP.
A criminal inquiry in the Netherlands found on Wednesday that the missile that shot the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 out of the sky was snuck out of and back into Russia. The investigators also confirmed that the missile that …read more
Source: Daily News & Analysis
