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The German Foreign Ministry responded to the Russian note about the crash of flight MH17 in Ukraine
The German Foreign Ministry responded to the Russian embassy with a note sent after publications appeared in a number of German media based on a report by the BND intelligence service on the circumstances of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Donbass.
In a note prepared by the German Foreign Ministry, it is said that the excerpts from the BND report cited in the media "are incomplete." What particular fragments of the report are in question, the document of the German Foreign Ministry does not specify.
“The interpretations presented in the press of the report of the President of the Federal Intelligence Service to the Bundestag Committee for Control over the Activities of the Special Services dated October 8 this year. are incomplete,” the German Foreign Ministry said in a note.
- In October, the Spiegel magazine published an article, which, in particular, stated that the head of the BND, Gerhard Shindler, speaking before the Bundestag control commission, said that the liner was shot down by separatists from the Buk anti-aircraft complex captured from the Ukrainian army.
- At the same time, the publication, citing BND, reported that both Russian and Ukrainian information about the circumstances of the plane crash was not true.
- Boeing 777 crashed in Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. The disaster killed 298 people.
- In September, Dutch experts investigating the downing of the Boeing released their first report saying the plane broke apart mid-air due to "structural damage caused by the external impact of numerous high-energy objects." What kind of objects in question, the report did not specify. There are no conclusions about the responsibility of the parties to the conflict for the disaster in the report.