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International investigators confirm what Bellingcat already discovered: MH17 was brought down by Russia's 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade

Source: Meduza

A press conference on Thursday by the Joint Investigative Team stated what has become obvious for many observers around the world: the Buk missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 people on board, was fired from a Russian military unit. The announcement on May 24 pinned the deadly incident on Russia's 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade.

Open-source researchers at Bellingcat had already identified the same brigade as the likely source of the missile. Russia has denied any military role in eastern Ukraine, despite compelling evidence to the contrary.

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