“Bringing such a highly sophisticated, extremely risky anti-air missile into Donbass is an example of actions which could be and should be treated as an act of terrorism and a war crime”, Klimkin said.
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This illustration shows where the warhead detonated above Flight MH17 [Photo Courtesy of Dutch Safety Board]The Malaysia Airlines plane went down after a warhead detonated outside of the front left of the aircraft. The explosion tore off the forward part of the aircraft, which broke up within the air.
All 298 people, a few two-thirds of whom were Dutch, aboard the doomed Boeing-777 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was blown out of the air over rebel-held east Ukraine on July 17 2014. Hours before the Dutch report, a state-controlled missile-maker in Russian Federation said its own investigation showed that the damage pattern in the plane did not match with the damage caused by the weapons found in Moscow, and that the missile was sacked from an area under the control of Ukrainian government forces, not the separatists. The report confirms that the plane was shot down by a Russian-built surface-to-air missile, as long suspected, but not by whom or from exactly where. An global commission comprised of lawyers from several countries must issue its finding on this thorny issue next year.
Novikov said the missile was “for sure” fired from Zaroshchenskoye village in southeastern Ukraine controlled by Ukrainian military forces rather than by insurgents.
Russian Federation disputes that a Buk may have been used.
The head of ICAO’s Council said that they will review the report’s recommendations and respond as needed, Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.
According to the relatives, the reports stated that occupants of the Malaysian Airlines flight lost consciousness seconds after the impact of a missile, with the cockpit crew being killed instantly.
The report also seemed certain to strengthen calls within the airline industry for a review of how information is shared in conflict zones.
Joustra said “almost all operators” were flying over Ukraine because no one thought commercial aircraft were at risk at cruising altitude. He recalled that in the months before the crash, “at least 16 military planes and helicopters were shot down in the eastern part of Ukraine”.
The Ukrainian foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin, told reporters at a press briefing at the United Nations that his country wants a criminal investigation to “expose perpetrators”.
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The Joint Investigation Team is led by the Dutch national police and prosecutor, with the participation of specialists from Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, Ukraine.
