Malaysia Airlines Crash Investigators May Have Found Missile Clues in Ukraine
The crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July last year, near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine.
MOSCOW - Prosecutors in the Netherlands revealed on Tuesday that they had found what could be pieces of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile system in eastern Ukraine, in the area of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
The announcement brings the methodical, slow-moving investigation of the crash closer to the version that burst into public view almost immediately last summer after the plane exploded. That version blamed a surface-to-air missile.
It does not, though, assign blame to either the Ukrainian soldiers or the Russian-backed rebels fighting a war in the area. Nor does it blame the Russians.
The revelation is significant as the first from Dutch investigators to link physical evidence with a specific type of missile system, a Buk surface-to-air system.
If confirmed, their discovery could prove embarrassing for Russia, as it would rule out an air-to-air missile strike by a Ukrainian fighter jet as the cause of the disaster, which was the version promulgated by the Russian Defense Ministry soon after the crash.
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