A Dutch prosecutor on Wednesday said a joint investigation concluded the missile that brought down Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was brought from Russia to a field near the town of Pervomaisk in eastern Ukraine, a territory occupied by pro-Russian separatists at the time.
After the missile was fired, the launcher was taken back to Russia, according to the prosecutor, who presented preliminary findings of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), probing the 2014 crash, in which 298 people were killed. Most of the victims were Dutch.
Wilbert Paulissen, chief of the Dutch National Crime Squad, said after examining forensic evidence, they could identify …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
