Less then three month after the World Anti-Doping Agency’s experts concluded that the FSB and Russia’s Sports Ministry had set up and then tried to cover up a massive doping scheme for Russia’s athletes (which led to the removal of 111 Russian sportsmen from the Rio Olympics and the banning of the whole Paralympic national team from the competition), another report came out last week that has put the Kremlin on its back foot.
The Joint Investigation Team, a Dutch-led group of prosecutors, presented a report definitively stating that Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 had been shot down by a “Buk” missile brought into Ukrainian separatist territory from Russia, after which the weapons system was taken back to Russia. The experts said they have proof that the Russian-made Buk 9M38 had crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border and that around 100 people were in some way involved into the process of getting the system in and out of the country. The experts say, however, that they have yet to identify the exact chain of command.
