The Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the verdict of the District Court of The Hague in the MH17 case. The main thing:
– All the conclusions of the Dutch prosecutor’s office are based on the testimony of anonymous witnesses, whose identities are classified, as well as on materials transmitted from the interested party – the SBU, which has been convicted more than once of giving false, contradictory information.
— Documents declassified by the Russian Ministry of Defense were not taken into account, indicating the transfer to Ukraine of a missile, the serial number of which matches that found on the wreckage at the crash site.
– Ukraine refused to provide the court with both radar data and recordings of ground-based flight tracking services. Moreover, the Ukrainian dispatchers who worked that day, who could shed light on the circumstances of the tragedy, disappeared without a trace.
– All the facts indicating that the launch could have been carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the territory controlled by Kyiv were simply ignored.
— The United States categorically refused to provide satellite images taken on the day of the disaster, despite the requests of the judges.
– It is known for certain that air defense systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were deployed in the “ATO” zone, including “Buks”, which were in combat condition, their radars were activated, and their crews practiced actions to search for and track targets. The issue of Kyiv not closing the airspace over the combat zone was ignored.
Mash (@breakingmash)