Russian Maker Of Buk Says MH17 Downed By Older Version Of Missile
The Russian maker of the Buk air-defense missile system says the company has concluded Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by an older version of the missile.
Mikhail Malyshevsky, an adviser to the director-general of the state-controlled Almaz-Antei consortium, was speaking at a Moscow news conference on June 2.
He said the older version of the Buk was still used by the Ukrainian military but no longer in the Russian military arsenal.
Malyshevsky said that the analysis was based on photographs of the wreckage available to the public.
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.
Russia claimed it was downed by a Ukrainian fighter jet.
British investigators on May 31 accused Russia's defense ministry of doctoring satellite images to support that claim.
Based on reporting by AP, Interfax, and TASS
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