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Murder In The Sky: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17

The Moscow Times: A ‘long haul’ still ahead for Russia and flight MH17 crash

Published Sept. 29, 2016 at 7:39 am

A young boy looks at debris from the crash of the MH17 flight next to small paper airplanes made by local children at a makeshift memorial in Petropavlivka village, Donetsk region, on the second anniversary of the crash on July 17, 2016. Dozens of local villagers gathered on July 17 in separatist eastern Ukraine at the crash site of the MH17 flight two years after the jet was hit by a missile killing 298 people. Some 60 local people carried flowers and lit the candles on the small square of the village of Petropavlivka where some of the remains and personal belongings of passengers on the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur fell to the ground. / AFP PHOTO / Aleksey Filippov

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As a Dutch-led investigation team on Wednesday provided further evidence of Russia’s role in the fatal crash of Flight MH17, Moscow is not budging an inch in dismissing all claims of its involvement as politicized.

Among the most important conclusions presented by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in a press conference today was that the Buk surface-to-air missile system responsible for the deaths of 298 people was brought into eastern Ukraine from Russia.