"The Americans still stubbornly categorically refuse to provide satellite images that were taken in July 2014, when the Malaysian Boeing crash occurred," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

He noted that "a few days ago the Dutch court directly announced that there is no more hope that the Americans will provide these images and the issue is closed for the court."

“The facts of colossal importance are being concealed,” the Foreign Minister added.

On the eve of the presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis, during a hearing in the Netherlands in the case of the crash of Boeing on flight MH17, he spoke about the findings of an expert from the Almaz-Antey concern, who was interviewed by the investigating judge.

Boeing 777, flying MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on July 17, 2014 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Killed 283 passengers and 15 crew members.

The trial for the crash of flight MH17 began in the Netherlands on March 9, 2020.