The spokesman also said that the investigators had ignored for unknown reasons a few facts about the crash provided by Moscow.
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Russian authorities on Monday slammed Dutch investigators probing the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane crash after they refused to cooperate with experts from Moscow.
The letter, received by the ICAO on September 16, states that the DSB ignored “comprehensive information” provided by the Russian side and relating to the downing of the Boeing 777 over war-torn Eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, the media report said.
Reportedly briefed by the chairman and vice-chairman of the Dutch Safety Board two weeks ago, the lawyer said investigators at The Hague had reconstructed the plane from the nose to as far back as the galley behind the cockpit and found holes as large as 76mm in diameter.
The findings by the Dutch Safety Board will be unveiled Tuesday, according to a report from The Sunday Times of London.
Sources close to the investigation said the report will confirm the damage to the aircraft was consistent with a mid-air strike by an exploding missile such as the BUK.
Ukraine and the west have accused pro-Russian rebels in the region of shooting down the plane with a BUK missile supplied from Russia.
In June, Almaz-Antei presented a report claiming that the airplane had been shot down by a Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian military, and said that Russian Federation has stopped producing Buk-M1 missiles since 1999, only selling the remaining systems to foreign clients.
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No suspect has been publicly identified, though countries whose citizens were killed in the air disaster have sought to take up the case at the UN Security Council, which was vetoed by Russian Federation in July.
