An investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 has linked Russian President Vladimir Putin to the approval of the use of the missile system that shot down the plane.
There are “strong indications” that President Vladimir V. Putin decided to supply the antiaircraft missile system that Russia-backed separatists used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet above eastern Ukraine in 2014, a Dutch-led international team found.
Malaysia Airlines flight 17, also called Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, flight of a passenger airliner that crashed and burned in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014.
All 298 people on board, most of whom were citizens of the Netherlands, died in the crash. A Dutch inquiry determined that the aircraft was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile.
For Malaysia Airlines it was the second disaster of 2014, following the disappearance of flight 370 on March 8.
