A new Dutch-led investigation of the 2014 deadly shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in a separatist-held area of Ukraine corroborates what was already widely documented: A Russian Buk missile system caused the crash. Prosecutors stopped short of directly blaming Moscow, which has denied involvement. But for officials in Kiev and elsewhere, Wednesday’s findings confirmed Russia’s hand in the ongoing conflict — and its follow-up attempts to muddy the investigation of the crash that killed 298.
