Dutch prosecutors confirmed today that pieces of a Russian-built BUK surface-to-air-missile were found at the site where Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed in the Ukraine last year.
Photos: A BUK missile launcher; all that remained of a Boeing 777 and 298 innocent human beings. After the airliner was shot down, Russian separatists hindered investigators by blocking off the site and tampering with the wreckage. Does anyone have doubts about who was behind the shoot-down?
A picture taken on July 18, 2014 shows the wreckages of the Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur a day after it crashed, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. Pro-Russian rebels fighting central Kiev authorities claimed on July 17 that the Malaysian airline that crashed in Ukraine had been shot down by a Ukrainian jet. The head of Ukraine’s air traffic control agency said Thursday that the crew of the Malaysia Airlines jet that crashed in the separatist east had reported no problems during flight. All 298 people on board Flight MH17 died when the plane crashed. AFP PHOTO/DOMINIQUE FAGETDOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images