MH17 crash: It could have not been the Russians or rebels after all

The missile that struck the Malaysian Boeing aircraft over East Ukraine was a very specific type – one not produced in the Russian Federation since 1999 and was fired from Snezhny, what was controlled

The missile that struck the Malaysian Boeing aircraft over East Ukraine was a very specific type – one not produced in the Russian Federation since 1999 and was fired from Snezhny, what was controlled by Ukraine and not seperatists, a spokesperson of Russiaโ€™s air-defense systems manufacturer, Almaz-Antey, told reporters today.

Russiaโ€™s air-defense systems manufacturer, Almaz-Antey, has been holding a press conference on its appeal at the European Court of Justice against EU sanctions over the Boeing MH17 crash in Eastern Ukraine. The BUK missile manufacturer presented its own findings. Head engineer Mikhail Malyshevsky is presenting his finding and responding to questions.

His conclusion: ‘We do not rule out other versions, but we stand by our analysis that BUK M1 hit MH17’.
A lot of absolutely contradictory information in Western media about circumstances of MH17 tragedy, stated missile maker Almaz-Antey.

Here is a chronological transcript of today’s press conference

Tuesday, June 2

10:34 GMT:
The Ukrainian General Staff says that Ukraine possesses BUK M-1 missile systems, but that on the day of the MH17 crash Ukraine was not in control of the area where it is suspected the missile was fired.

10:34 GMT:
Almaz-Antey is still entertaining the possibility that another aircraft may have been involved in the downing of flight MH17.

10:32 GMT:
The country that possessed the missile that hit flight MH17 remains unknown – Almaz-Antey

10:29 GMT:
“If necessary, we can carry out a field test… with the participation of independent experts,” Novikov says. “We are willing to carry out a demolition of a 9M38M1 missile at a specified angle and aimed at the same model of aircraft.”

10:19 GMT:
The missile could not have been fired from Snezhny, as the survey findings are consistent with it being fired from the Zaroschshenskoe village, which is controlled by the Ukrainian security forces. Angle of missile strike allows us to reveal MH17 hit above the area of Zaroshchenske, not Snezhnoe as reported: missile maker Almaz-Antey
– Almaz-Antey

10:16 GMT:
The missile that struck the Boeing aircraft was a very specific type – one not produced in the Russian Federation since 1999 – Almaz-Antey to reporters.

10:14 GMT:
Almaz-Antey has evidence that the BUK-M1 air defense missile system and accompanying missiles have been still deployed with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2005. According to their evidence, they had a total of 991 9M38M1 missiles at the time – Malyshev

10:08 GMT:
โ€œDuring the first stage of our investigation, the type of system was established. It was a Buk-M1 system [NATO reporting name SA-11], a 9ะœ38-ะœ1 rocket and a 9ะœ314 warhead,โ€ – Malyshev

10:02 GMT:
The damage caused to the aircraft appears consistent with the 9M38-M1 missile, which has a specific “scalpel” trajectory, with 40 percent of shrapnel breaking apart in a perpendicular fashion to the initial trajectory of the missile – Malyshev

10:01 GMT:
The version of events that saw MH17 hit with a missile launched from the Snezhny district is full of inconsistencies.-Malyshev

09:55 GMT:
Traces of Buk 9M38M1 missile fragments found on remains of MH17 Boeing, Malyshevsky said.

09:49 GMT:
The character of the damage caused to the aircraft is consistent only with the BUK9M38 and BUK9M38-M1 missiles, if the BUK missiles are in question.

09:46 GMT:
The BUK 9M317 missile type employed by the Russian Armed Forces is out of the question here, as the shape of the fragments does not match the damage caused to the aircraft – adviser to the head engineer Mihail Malyshevsky

09:33 GMT:
“The purpose of todayโ€™s conference is to prove our non-involvement in the MH-17 tragedy,”

09:33 GMT:
EU sanctions against the BUK missile manufacturer Almaz-Antey are motivated by its alleged complicity in the tragedy of the MH17 flight shot down over east Ukraine, CEO Yan Novikov told reporters.

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