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Only Russia seems to have not lost interest in the investigation of the Malaysian Boeing crash in Ukraine on July 17, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. 

“In fact, we are the only one who tries to preserve attention to this most serious problem,” Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow on Aug. 25.

“There is an impression everyone else has lost interest in this investigation,” he said.

“Everyone who has brought the first, nearly hysterical accusations against Russia and the militia are keeping mum now,” the Russian foreign minister pointed out.

“We have not been told anything coherent about the reasons why the deciphered black box data cannot be provided fully, why the Ukrainian side still cannot provide conversations of Dnipropetrovsk air traffic controllers,” Lavrov said.

Russia has asked the question to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which is mentioned by the UN Security Council resolution as a coordination body. “There is nothing transparent there, too,” Lavrov said.

“We will insist on hearing the truth [about the crash] and we will also insist on hearing the truth in the investigation of “the case of Maidan snipers” and the Odesa and Mariupol tragedies,” he assured the reporters.

“There are also smaller matters which cause serious questions and which they are trying to hush down. I mean the absence of any information about the outcome of an inquiry into video recordings of the Ukrainian army using UN-marked helicopters. It has vanished into thin air, as well,” the foreign minister added.

“We forget nothing and we will not allow hushing down these crimes and the need to put to justice everyone who has committed them,” he promised.