Amsterdam - The perpetrator who shot down the Malaysian Airlines MH17 plane over the Eastern Ukraine region in 2014 has been revealed. Prosecutors investigating the incident have identified missiles that shoot down MH17 from a Russian military unit.
MH17 crashed after being hit by a Russian-made missile on July 17, 2014. The plane with the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur route crashed in the eastern Ukraine region, which was then ruled by pro-Russian separatists. A total of 298 people on the plane, most of whom were Dutch citizens, were killed.
The head of the Dutch National Police Crime Division, Wilbert Paulissen, stated that the missiles were fired from a military vehicle belonging to the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade on the Russian army, according to Reuters and AFP, Thursday (24/5/2018).
"It has come to the conclusion that the BUK-TELAR who shot down MH17 came from Brigade Anti-aircraft missile -53 based in Kursk in Russia," said Paulissen in a recent press conference in Bunnik, The Netherlands.
"All the vehicles in the convoy carrying the missiles are part of the Russian Armed Forces," he added.
Russia has repeatedly denied any involvement in this tragic incident. There has been no recent comment from Russia regarding this conclusion.
In a provisional development for the MH17 investigation, prosecutors reduced the list of suspect candidates from over 100 people to just a few dozen people. "We have a lot of evidence and a lot of evidence, but we're not done yet, there are still many things to do," says MH17 chief prosecutor Fred Westerbeke.
Westerbeke told reporters that investigators were not ready to reveal the suspected identity, publicly or released the indictment. The question of whether the 53rd Brigade members played an active role in the MH17 shootdown action is also under investigation.
Westerbeke called for eyewitnesses, including local residents, to help investigators identify the individuals who operate the missile system. He also said he still needed information about who gave the orders to the missile shooters and who were officials responsible for the 53rd Brigade.
In a statement last year, the Dutch Foreign Ministry declared that the suspects identified in the shooting fall MH17 would later be tried in Dutch courts and under Dutch law.
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