Yahoo – AFP,
9 Oct 2015
A picture
taken on October 15, 2014 shows the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines
flight MH17
near the village of Rassipnoe (AFP Photo/Dominique Faget)
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Moscow
(AFP) - The Russian manufacturer of the missile system blamed for shooting down
flight MH17 said Friday it would unveil the "real reasons" for the
disaster on the same day Dutch investigators present their final report on the
tragedy.
Almaz-Antey,
the maker of the BUK surface-to-air system that the West and Kiev believe
downed MH17, said it would present its version of events at a press conference
on Tuesday after holding an "experiment" that entailed detonating a
missile next to a plane.
The company
will air its claims on the same day that Dutch investigators issue their report
following a 15-month probe.
All 298
people onboard were killed when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed
over east Ukraine on July 17 last year.
Almaz-Antey
said it would "present the results of a full-scale experiment, a real
simulation of an encounter between a BUK-type missile and a passenger
plane."
The test
"will help understand the real causes of the catastrophe," it said.
Ukraine and
many in the West have accused pro-Russian rebels of blowing the airliner out of
the sky with a BUK missile supplied from Russia, possibly mistaking it for a
Ukrainian warplane.
Moscow has
vehemently denied any involvement, providing a range of conflicting theories,
including an air-to-air missile putatively launched by a Ukrainian jet.
Almaz-Antey
in June said the BUK-M1 type of missile has not been produced in Russia since
1999 and is in the arsenal of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Moscow in
July vetoed a UN resolution to establish an international tribunal to prosecute
those responsible for the downing.
Investigators
in the Dutch probe have said that they found fragments at the crash site that
seem to be from a Russian-made surface-to-air missile. The report findings next
week are expected to provide details but will not assign blame.
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