According to him, the Ukrainian side several times sent requests to the government and the Prosecutor General of Iran for the possibility of participating in the investigation of the case.
“We requested information that is necessary for the investigation, asked about the interrogation of a certain number of people, about the receipt of certain physical evidence, including the remains of the aircraft. But we have not yet received answers to all these questions - until we see the reaction on the part of the Iranian authorities that we would like to see, ”Interfax-Ukraine quotes Ryaboshapka.
He also spoke about the active cooperation with representatives of those countries whose citizens died during the crash in Tehran, on the creation of an international investigation team to investigate the circumstances of the crash of the Ukrainian plane.
“There is no final result yet, but the draft agreement on the creation of the group has been prepared, we passed it on to the embassies of several countries, including Iran, in order to be able to work as part of the investigative group,” the Prosecutor General of Ukraine said.
Earlier, the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran confirmed that the Boeing of Ukraine’s International Airlines, traveling from Tehran to Kiev, was shot down by two short-range ground-to-air missiles from the Top-M1 anti-aircraft missile system.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky discussed with the special representative of the head of Iran Mohammad Eslami the transfer of black airplane boxes for decryption to Kiev.
The plane crash occurred on January 8, killing all 176 people on board.
On January 11, Tehran admitted that the Iranian air defense system mistakenly shot down an airplane, mistaking it for a cruise missile.