Ukraine security service says didn't detain driver of trailer carrying BUK that downed MH17 flight - Jul. 21, 2019

Ukraine security service says didn’t detain driver of trailer carrying BUK that downed MH17 flight

Published July 21, 2019 at 11:52 am

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.

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said they did not detain the driver of the trailer, which transported the BUK anti-aircraft missile system, from which Boeing-777 of MH17 flight was shot down, the SBU press center said.

The press center said on July 17, a briefing was held in Kyiv on the progress of the investigation into the fact that the passenger plane of flight MH17 was shot down.

“After the event, certain media spread false information about the detention of the driver of the trailer, who transported the BUK air defense system on July 17, 2014. In fact, the briefing mentioned the fact that the Ukrainian court had arrested and convicted a militant of the “DPR” terrorist organization involved in the illegal seizure of a trailer in Donetsk in July 2014. Later on, other persons were transporting Buk in the territory of Luhansk and Donetsk regions, temporarily out of control of the Ukrainian authorities, from which Boeing-777 of MH17 flight was shot down,” the press center said.