The release of a collection of intercepted telephone conversations between rebel figures in the Donbas by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) provides some extra detail and context to the interactions between them and Moscow around the shooting down of the MH17 airliner in 2014. It does not really change the general understanding of what happened, but it does represent an interesting evolution of the investigation’s tactics.
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Dutch Police Head of Central Crime Investigation Department Wilbert Paulissen delivers a speech during a press conference of the Joint Investigation Team on June 19, 2019 in Nieuwegein, on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014.