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Lavrov on Alleged MH17 Crash Witnesses’ Accounts: Looks Like Hoax

© REUTERS / Antonio BronicLocal workers transport a piece of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 wreckage at the site of the plane crash near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine November 20, 2014
Local workers transport a piece of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 wreckage at the site of the plane crash near the village of Hrabove (Grabovo) in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine November 20, 2014 - Sputnik International
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Western media reports based on information allegedly obtained from eyewitnesses of the flight MH17 crash look "very much like what is called a hoax".

The Dutch Safety Board leading an investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airline's Flight MH17 Boeing 777 in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk is considering evidence on the tragedy from all sources - Sputnik International
Lavrov: International MH17 Crash Investigation Violates ICAO Rules
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday questioned Western media reports on the crash of flight MH17 in Ukraine based on alleged eyewitnesses.

"What was published by the Reuters news agency, a reputed and respected media outlet, looks very much like, you know, what is called a hoax. There are some eyewitnesses who contradict each other and say things that sound bizarre to any expert, for example, a zigzagging missile, separating stages, a trail of blue smoke," he said.

At the same time, Lavrov said, Western media ignore officially documented information from eyewitnesses previously obtained by Russian media and investigators, including those indicating the presence of a Ukrainian military jet in the vicinity of the doomed flight.

Dutch military police stand next to parts of the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, displayed in a hangar at Gilze-Rijen airbase, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Ukraine Media Falsely Claim Dutch Prosecutors Accuse Russia of Downing MH17
In July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Boeing flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in war-torn eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, killing all 298 people on board. The plane broke up in the air after being hit by multiple objects from outside the airframe, according to a September 2014 preliminary report by the Dutch Safety Board, the leading investigator of the accident.

A final investigation report is expected to be published by the Dutch Safety Board by mid-2015. Meanwhile, Kiev forces and pro-independence supporters of Donbas have accused each other of the tragedy.

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