An investigation carried out by the Ukrainian government has proven that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made missile launched by a Buk missile system from an area uncontrolled by Kyiv, Deputy Prime Minister, chairman of the government commission on coordination of the MH17 crash inquiry Hennadiy Zubko has said.
“At this reconstruction you can see from what site the missile was fired, this is a territory controlled by the pro-Russian militants; and which weapon it was, which was identified in the technical report as a Buk-1 Russian missile. From this video you can also see that this was a planned terrorist attack which occurred on territory uncontrolled by the Ukrainian authorities. The video also clearly shows that the missile was fired from the area of the town of Snizhne,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Oct. 13.
Zubko stressed that the missile was launched in front of the aircraft and that “the trajectory of its flight proves that it was aimed to hit the pilots, to make even an emergency landing impossible.”
He said that the trajectory of the missile flight, which the Ukrainian working group established independently from the Dutch team, coincided with trajectory which was indicated in the technical report prepared by the Netherlands.
