There is now little doubt that Moscow is responsible for handing over the missile to its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine.
I was stood among the tents and makeshift huts in Independence Square on 17 July 2014 in central Kiev when I heard that flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kula Lumpur had been shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.
Ukraine was already in turmoil. Remnants of the protestors that had gathered in Independence — or Maidan — Square during the popular uprising that overthrew former President Ukrainian Viktor Yanukovych in February of that year still …read more
Source: New Statesman