MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Niemoller cited a recent letter from Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), criticizing Dutch investigators over their inquiry methods into the MH17 airplane crash.
"What I know of, DSB [isn’t] interested in anything else but a Buk [missile] scenario. Which is logical, because in reality it's a Dutch/[Ukraine] investigation. They are ignoring all other information," Joost Niemoller, a Dutch journalist and author of "MH-17: The Cover-up Deal" book, said.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Air Transport Agency confirmed it had sent the complaint.
"The report cannot arrive at a final, conclusive decision since the investigators were not at the crash scene immediately after the crash," British historian Martin McCauley told Sputnik. "They [investigators] assumed that Russian evidence would be provided to absolve Russia of any blame. Russia would not provide material which pointed to Russian involvement."
A final Dutch Safety Board report is due on Tuesday. Preliminary findings state that the passenger jet broke up in mid-air after being hit by several high-energy objects.
Ukraine and its Western allies have blamed the militia in the country’s east for downing the aircraft, while the Donbass forces said that they did not have weapons capable of bringing down high-altitude aircraft and blamed Kiev forces for the plane crash.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia had repeatedly expressed its disappointment over Dutch investigators ignoring the cooperation of Russian specialists.
