KUALA LUMPUR: Russia has called the statement by the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on Wednesday of the alleged involvement of Russian servicemen in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 tragedy in 2014 as “utterly regrettable”.
“The JIT continues to put forward not entirely reasonable arguments, some of which are based on dubious information sources. Meanwhile, the data submitted to the investigation by Russia continues to be willfully ignored,” it said in a
statement.
The statement was made available by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on Wednesday through its embassy in Kuala Lumpur.
Russia also denied the accusation made by JIT representatives that it has been withholding full cooperation.
“From the very first day of the tragedy, Russia has been vitally interested in finding the truth and willing to help the investigation in every respect. Russia actively cooperated with the Netherlands and presented all information it had on the MH17 crash,” it said. – Bernama
