• The Netherlands: a pro-Russian separatist missile hit the MH17 aircraft on 17 July 2014
  • Ukraine, flight crash Mh17 Malaysia Airlines: found possible Russian missile fragments Buk
  • MH17 Malaysia Airlines, unpublished images immediately after the impact on the ground

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September 29, 2016The United States greeted with satisfaction the results of the Dutch inquiry into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014 in Eastern Ukraine, estimating that they confirm the American suspicions about a Russian involvement. According to investigators, the plane was shot down by a missile that was brought to Ukraine from Russian territory. One hundred people were investigated for having "an active role" in this case.

"The provisional conclusions confirm the statement by the Secretary of State John Kerry in the days following the tragedy according to which the MH17 flight was shot down by a BUK surface-to-air missile launched from the territory controlled by the pro-Russian separatists, in the East of Ukraine", US diplomacy spokesman John Kirby estimated.

According to the US, "there is no doubt" about these results. And Kirby recalled that the investigation showed that "the BUK system was transported from Russia to the territory controlled by separatists in Ukraine before the accident and then brought back to Russia after the MH17 flight was shot down".

Moscow called the investigation "partisan" and politically motivated ", excluding any involvement in the case.

The reconstruction
Presenting the first report, the leaders of the Jit (the Joint Investigation team composed of forensic researchers from the five most involved countries, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia, Ukraine and Belgium) have torn the Russian theses to pieces. In particular they have categorically excluded the presence of other planes close to the Boeing holiday. An unprecedented work was conducted not only on the remains of the plane and for the autopsies of the victims (in whose bodies fragments of the missile's metal were found). Among other things, the entire cellular network of the area was reconstructed and secret tests were conducted in Finland to identify the specific missile model used. The investigators, who had the opportunity to also view classified satellite data and images made available by the US and the European space agency (ESA), were thus able to establish that on 17 July 2014 the Boeing 777 on the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur route was hit by a Russian-built BuM missile of the type 9M38, launched from a special military vehicle stationed in an arable field near the village of Pervomiskly, south of Snizhne. After the launch, the camp was set on fire and turned over with bulldozers, while the convoy that had been seen arriving from Donetsk moved to Lugansk, and from there it "returned to Russia".