MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of Dutch, Australian, Belgian, Ukrainian and Malaysian prosecutors is due to publish their report later in the day on the July 17, 2014 crash of a Malaysian airliner, which killed all 298 people onboard.
"Unfortunately, this whole story [unveils] against the backdrop of a great number of speculations, unqualified, unprofessional information. It is accompanied by concealment and countries not providing large amount of radar data," Peskov said.
On October 13, 2015, the Dutch Security Council issued results of its own investigation. The council did not try to blame any party to the conflict in Ukraine for the plane crash – it revealed that the jet was hit by a 9M38 missile fired from a Buk missile system. The Security Council’s report only said that the missile had been launched from a 320-square-kilometer (more than 120 square miles) area in eastern Ukraine.
"It would be wrong to speculate about media reports and leaks, we should wait for the report to see what wording it uses and what conclusions were made," Peskov told reporters.
Russia agreed with the report’s conclusion that the missile exploded near the left side of the jet. But Russia’s arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey said that it was a proof that the missile had been launched from the Zaroshchenske region controlled by Ukrainian armed forces. According to Almaz-Antey, if the missile had been launched from Snezhnoye controlled by eastern Ukrainian pro-independence militia, it would have hit the right side of the plane.
Despite the fact that Russian experts were not invited in JIT, they were asked for help during the investigation. The Netherlands asked for primary radar images of the Ukrainian air space obtained in the time of the crash. Russia managed to gain radar data that revealed no objects that could have caused destruction of the jet.
