MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Peskov said that a number of factors into the downing of the MH17 flight in March 2014 presented by Russia to the Dutch Safety Board “was not taken into consideration” during the investigations.
“What will be published tomorrow [by the Dutch Safety Board] will be thoroughly studied by our experts and specialists, but the Russian side has expressed several times its disappointment to the fact that there is a lack of needed cooperation and involvement of Russian specialists in the investigations,” Peskov told journalists.
Flight MH17 crashed while flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on July 17, 2014. All 298 people on board, mostly Dutch citizens, perished in the accident.
Russian arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey, the manufacturer of Buk missile systems, will present on Tuesday the results of its simulation of the flight MH17 crash. Earlier this year, Almaz-Antey published the results of its inquiry into the crash, showing that the Malaysian plane was downed by a guided missile launched from a Buk-M1 system.
The missile system has not been produced in Russia since 1999, but remains in the service of the Ukrainian Army, according to the manufacturer.
