MOSCOW: The Russian missiles making firm claims that Malaysian Airline plane MH17 was downed in Ukraine by a BUK missile system, AFP reported on Wednesday.
Officials from state-controlled missile producer Almaz-Antey said they could not pinpoint which side shot down the plane, but intimated that the Ukrainian army was responsible as they unveiled their own report into the incident based on publicly available photographs of the wreckage.
“The first stage of our analysis showed that the type of missile system used was a BUK-M1,” company official Mikhail Malyshevsky said at a press conference, Russian news agencies reported.
Company officials said that the BUK-M1 missile had not been produced in Russia since 1999 and was in the arsenal of the Ukrainian armed forces.
All 298 passengers and crew on board the Malaysia Airlines jetliner — the majority of them Dutch — died when it was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year.
