MH17: Russia accuses US of fabricating evidence

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   MH17: Russia accuses US of fabricating evidence

Russia’s deputy defence minister says US evidence ‘mostly cited social networks’ and did not correspond to reality

Anatoly Antonov, deputy defence minister has said Washington’s claims that pro-Russian rebels fired a missile that hit the plane did not correspond to reality
Anatoly Antonov, deputy defence minister has said Washington’s claims that pro-Russian rebels fired a missile that hit the plane did not correspond to reality Photo: Getty
By Tom Parfitt,
Russia suggested on Thursday that the United States was trying to fabricate evidence that separatists in eastern Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.
Anatoly Antonov, deputy defence minister, said Washington’s claims that pro-Russian rebels fired a missile that hit the plane on July 17 “mostly cited social networks” and did not correspond to reality.
Alexander Yakovenko, Russia’s ambassador to Britain, also poured scorn on the widespread belief that Moscow is supplying the rebels, saying: “Russia doesn’t supply weapons to local de facto (separatist) authorities in eastern Ukraine” and that “no evidence whatsoever has been presented that the Russian government has been doing this”.
The ambassador’s comment came after a Nato source told Reuters news agency the alliance was seeing a rising flow of arms into the conflict zone from Russia.
Mr Antonov said US intelligence experts had claimed they could “prove the guilt of the [pro-Russian] militia and almost Russia itself” and were in possession of technical data and satellite photographs to back up their accusation……MORE HERE

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk