The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: decision of the court of Germany confirmed the blame Ukraine for the Downing of MH17
The recent decision of the German court on the suit of the Berlin Bureau of investigative journalism "Adjustments" against the German foreign Ministry regarding the risk to civil aviation flights over the East of Ukraine confirms the responsibility of Kiev for the Downing of the Boeing, said on Thursday at a press conference official authorized the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
Passenger Boeing 777 organization Malaysia Airlines flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur flight MH17 crashed on 17 July 2014 in the Donetsk region. Lost the lives of 298 people. Kiev was subjected to charges of collapse of the liner of the militia, but they told that does not have the means that would shoot down aircraft at this altitude.
in late summer, the Berlin court has ruled that the German foreign Ministry is obliged to disclose the data about the fact that the foreign Ministry knew about the risk to civil aviation over the Donbas, however, took no action in this regard.
"This fact only confirms our long-standing thesis about the fact that the main responsibility for the collapse of the Malaysian "Boeing" is the state space of events - namely Ukraine, whose authorities have not closed the airspace over the combat zone ", - said Zakharov.
"It is, thus, allowed the Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate negligence in addressing issues of air messages over its territory, which became the result of non-compliance with the Chicago Convention on international civil aviation, 1947," said foreign Ministry Commissioner.
"It is important that the court is one of the leading Western countries was not able to admit responsibility for the Ukrainian incident with" Boeing ", - said Zakharov.