{"id":252955,"date":"2016-09-28T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=252955"},"modified":"2016-09-28T15:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:09:21","slug":"mh17-missile-came-from-russia-dutch-led-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/mh17-missile-came-from-russia-dutch-led-investigators-say\/","title":{"rendered":"MH17 missile ‘came from Russia’, Dutch-led investigators say"},"content":{"rendered":"
International prosecutors investigating the downing of flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 say the Buk missile that hit the plane was from Russia.<\/p>\n
They also narrowed down the area it was fired from to a field in territory controlled by Russian-backed rebels.<\/p>\n
All 298 people on board the Boeing 777 died when it broke apart in mid-air flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n
Russia says the conclusions are “extremely political” and its Buk missiles “never shot down” the plane.<\/p>\n
“Based on the criminal investigation, we have concluded that flight MH17 was downed by a Buk missile of the series 9M83 that came from the territory of the Russian Federation,” chief Dutch police investigator Wilbert Paulissen said in a news conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The missile launcher was later taken back to Russia, he said.<\/p>\n