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States, which investigative agencies are involved in the inquiry of the tragedy of the Malaysian MH-17 aircraft crash, continue working on defining the mechanism for bringing perpetrators to justice in view of the impossibility of creating a tribunal, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said.

“The investigation of specific suspects, subordination circuit and command transmission are underway now to ensure transferring the case to a court of an appropriate jurisdiction in the near future. No doubt, creating of an international tribunal under UN Security Council auspices would be the most effective,” the Foreign Ministry statement says. The statement followed the announcement of the results of the investigation of the International joint investigation team (JIT) of the inquiry into the MH17 tragedy in Donbas.

“In spite of the widespread international support for this idea, Russia became the only country that vetoed the UN Security Council resolution on the establishment of such a tribunal. States, which investigative bodies are involved in the investigation, continue working on defining the mechanism to bring the perpetrators of this tragedy to justice,” the foreign ministry said.

As reported, international Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the course of the criminal investigation concluded that flight MH17 was shot down by a missile of the 9M38 series, launched by a BUK-TELAR. The BUK-TELAR was brought in from the territory of the Russian Federation and subsequently taken back to the Russian Federation.

According to the investigation team, the missile was launched from farmland in the vicinity of Pervomaiskiy (or: Pervomaisky), an area controlled at the time by pro-Russian fighters.