MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - Kiev is afraid to disclose true reasons behind the Malaysia Airlines Boeing777 crash near Donetsk, a senior Russian lawmaker said Monday.
“German security is sure: the pictures of Boeing wreckage, presented by Kiev, have been fabricated. It is no wonder, probably, they are afraid of truth in Kiev,” Alexei Pushkov who heads the Russian lower parliamentary house's foreign affairs committee wrote on his twitter.
On Sunday, Der Spiegel reported that Germany’s foreign intelligence service’s (BND) has found that some of the evidence on the Boeing crash provided by Kiev has been "manipulated".
BND's president, Gerhard Schindler, quoted by Der Spiegel also claimed his agency had found that Donbas militia was responsible for shooting down the Malaysian Boeing using a Buk missile system, though no evidence was unveiled.
On July 17, a Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk, killing all 298 people on board.
Kiev accuses independence supporters in eastern Ukraine of shooting the plane down, but cannot provide any evidence for this assertion. The local militia leaders say they do not have weapons capable of shooting down a plane flying at 32,000 feet.
During the investigation, Ukraine presented the satellite imagery of the Boeing crash site, which Kiev claimed demonstrated absence of its air defense systems in the area of the catastrophe. However, Moscow said that Ukraine’s pictures were taken later than Russia’s, unveiled in late July, and stressed also that the quality of the images was poor. The Russian imagery showed that the Malaysia Airlines flight crashed within the operating zone of the Ukrainian army’s Buk missile systems.
