MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Nov. 14 that the authenticity of phone intercepts which Dutch investigators said show Moscow’s influence over pro-Russian rebels accused of downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was not confirmed.
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Members of the Joint Investigation Team hold a press conference on June 19, 2019 in Nieuwegein, on the ongoing investigation of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in 2014, next to the pictures of former FSB colonel Igor Girkin (Strelkov) (top L), Sergei Dubinsky (top R) employed by Russia's GRU military intelligence agency, former soldier of the Spetznaz GRU Oleg Pulatov (bottom L) and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko (bottom R). The Dutch-led probe said it was going to prosecute Russian nationals Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky and Oleg Pulatov as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, adding they would be placed on national and international wanted lists, over the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane in July, 2014 when it was shot out of the sky by a BUK missile.
