21.01.2019, Moscow.
Russian citizens are not involved in the crash of the Malaysian МН17 flight, which fell in Donbass in 2014, the Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolay Vinnichenko said on January 21, RIA Novosti reports.
“Yes, we have heard about names of some Russian nationals in the context of the МН17 crash, circulating in media and in the Internet. We have also heard denials to this information, both from the so-called ‘defendants’ and from other journalists,” Nikolay Vinnichenko said.
He noted that, as long as no evidence supporting the involvement of Russian citizens is available, there can be no interrogations either.
A Boeing-777 MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on July 17, 2014, near Donetsk. All the passengers were killed.
The Government of the Netherlands together with Austria is trying to accuse Russia of this tragedy. However, at a briefing in Moscow on September 17, 2018, the Ministry of Defense presented facts as well as photos of the missile that shot the Boeing-777 down. The missile was manufactured in the USSR; in 1986 it was supplied to Ukraine, military unit 20152. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, all the ammunition became the property of the Ukrainian army.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
