KIEV: A top pro-Russian rebel said Wednesday that nearly half the wreckage of the Malaysia Airline jet shot down over Ukraine last year remain strewn across fields controlled by the separatists.
Insurgency leader Andrei Purgin said about 40% of the plane’s charred parts were left behind by international investigators and recovery teams.
Kiev and its Western allies accuse the militants of accidentally shooting down the Boeing 777 liner after mistaking it for a Ukrainian jet.
All 298 passengers and crew who boarded the Kuala Lumpur-bound flight MH17 in Amsterdam were killed.
The rebels and Moscow accuse the Ukrainian military of shooting the jet out …read more
Source: theSun
