Moscow defence officials have insisted that the Buk missile that destroyed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 killing all 298 people on board was not fired by Russians or from an area of Ukraine territory held by Russian-backed separatists.
The Russians have defiantly outlined their contrary position just two days before the joint investigative team, led by the Dutch and supported by Australia, hands down its final findings as to how the commercial airliner was shot from the sky over the war zone in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Thirty eight Australians lost their lives in the disaster.
