Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Downed By Russian Missile, Investigators Confirm

A Russian Missile Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 

After more than two years, it seems that investigations regarding the unfortunate crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 are finally heading towards some light and confirmation. The Dutch-led investigation came to a conclusion that the all too powerful surface to air missile system that downed the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine leading to the untimely death of 298 persons on board was trucked in from Russia upon request of Russian-backed separatists and went back to Russia on the same fateful night.

This report basically confirmed the widely documented role of the government of Russia not just in the deployment of this missile system, known as SA-11 or Buk, but even in the cover-up that followed, continuing up to this very day.

The report submitted by the team of prosecutors from Australia, Netherlands, Malaysia, Ukraine and Belgium was crucial for application of standards of evidence that can be used in court while developing a case that will directly implicate Russia, indicating the possibilities of a long legal and diplomatic struggle.

Through meticulous attention to details and working based on social media, cellphone records, witness accounts and other forms of evidence, the prosecutors were able to trace the role of Russia in the deployment of the missile system into Ukraine and it attempts in covering its tracks afterwards. No individual culprits were named in the inquiry to the point that it stopped short of stating the involvement of Russian soldiers.

Announcing their findings during a news conference in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, the investigators were pretty clear that they have plans of identifying the suspects and to discover who they think was responsible for giving orders and what the real intentions were as a means of preparing for bringing criminal indictments.

The report’s presented evidence strongly implicated Russian authorities in every sense of the word. To date, this inquiry can be considered as the most detailed and comprehensive investigation on the vicious attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the Boeing 777 bound to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia that flew from Amsterdam. There is very little chance that anyone who does not have any connection with the Russian military would have had capacity to deploy an SA-11 missile launcher straight from Russia to the neighboring country.

There were also suggestions from the investigators that a cooperating witness for the case was in fact a rebel soldier who was in charge of guarding the missile convoy on its speedy return to Russia after its launch.

It was to be remembered that on the 17^th of July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was destroyed in the middle of the intense fight between Russian-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces in the eastern part of Ukraine. The disaster worsened the already severed ties between the West and Russia, with the largest group of casualties found to be Dutch.

After a few days of the tragedy, the government of the United States came to a conclusion that the plan was brought down by a surface to air missile made by Russian which was launched from the territory held by the rebels and was most likely given by Russia to the pro-Moscow separatists.

 

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