VIDEO: Missile parts found at crash site of flight MH17 in Ukraine

Investigators in the Netherlands say they have found fragments of a suspected Russian missile system at the site where flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine.

VIDEO: Missile parts found at crash site of flight MH17 in Ukraine

The Malaysia Airlines plane came down on land held by pro-Russian rebels in July last year. All 298 passengers were killed. The Dutch prosecutors said the parts could come from a BUK surface-to-air system.

“The next step is to establish a fact….if this could be the missile system which downed MH17”, said Chief Investigator Red Westerbeke. “And if that is true we have important material in the investigation which can help us to find out where the missile came from, who did it belong to and where it was made.”

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