The Telegraph :
Fragments of a Buk anti-aircraft missile have been found in the bodies of victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 disaster in eastern Ukraine, an investigator has said.
Vasyl Vovk, a senior officer of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) who headed the Ukrainian contribution to the joint investigation into the disaster, said the fragments found amongst the aircraft wreckage and in victims’ bodies matched parts from two Buk missiles that investigators dismantled for comparison.
“The fragments found in the bodies of the victims
and the remains of the aircraft, are elements that resemble the samples from Buks given to experts for comparative research,” Mr Vovk told Dutch news site NOS.
The comments come just a week before the Dutch-led air safety investigation releases its report into the causes of the disaster on October 13.
MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpa when it was destroyed over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 298 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777 were killed, including 10 Britons.
Western governments have accused Russian-backed separatists of shooting down the airliner with a Buk SA-11 missile after mistaking it for a Ukrainian military aircraft.
The separatists and the Russian government have in turn blamed Ukraine for the disaster, saying it was downed either by a Ukrainian Buk missile or a fighter jet.
Fragments of a Buk anti-aircraft missile have been found in the bodies of victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 disaster in eastern Ukraine, an investigator has said.
Vasyl Vovk, a senior officer of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) who headed the Ukrainian contribution to the joint investigation into the disaster, said the fragments found amongst the aircraft wreckage and in victims’ bodies matched parts from two Buk missiles that investigators dismantled for comparison.
“The fragments found in the bodies of the victims
and the remains of the aircraft, are elements that resemble the samples from Buks given to experts for comparative research,” Mr Vovk told Dutch news site NOS.
The comments come just a week before the Dutch-led air safety investigation releases its report into the causes of the disaster on October 13.
MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpa when it was destroyed over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. All 298 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 777 were killed, including 10 Britons.
Western governments have accused Russian-backed separatists of shooting down the airliner with a Buk SA-11 missile after mistaking it for a Ukrainian military aircraft.
The separatists and the Russian government have in turn blamed Ukraine for the disaster, saying it was downed either by a Ukrainian Buk missile or a fighter jet.
