Missile firm clears Russia in downing of Malaysia airliner
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The Russian maker of the Buk air defense missile system said yesterday that it has concluded that Malaysian Airlines flight 17 was downed by an older version of the missile, which isn鈥檛 in service with the Russian military but is in Ukrainian arsenals.
Controversy continues over who shot down the plane last summer over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard. Ukraine and the West suspect it was destroyed by a Russian surface-to-air missile fired by Russian forces or separatist rebels fighting in the area.
Mikhail Malyshevsky, an adviser to the director general of the state-controlled Almaz-Antei consortium, told a news conference yesterday that the analysis was based on photographs of the wreckage available to the public. He said the holes in the plane鈥檚 parts were consistent with a specific type of Buk missile and its warhead.
Each of the Buk subtypes has its warhead rigged with shrapnel of a specific shape. This type of missile is in the Ukrainian military arsenals, but not in the Russian, said Almaz-Antei director Yan Novikov.
While Novikov and Malyshevsky stopped short of directly blaming Ukraine for shooting down the plane, their statements hinted at that.
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