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Russia’s Defense Ministry held a press conference September 17 claiming the Buk missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, killing 298 people, was made in Russia in 1986 and later transferred to a military unit in western Ukraine. The ministry said that missile never left Ukrainian soil, contradicting the international Joint Investigative Team’s (JIT) findings in May which placed the blame on Russia for the downing of the civilian airliner. RUSSIA -- Head of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Defence Ministry Lieutenant-General Nikolai Parshin attends a news conference on the crash of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane operating flight MH17 downed in eastern UkrainNicolas Dhuicq, a spokesman for the Debout La France (the France Arise) party, told the Russia state media outlet Sputnik that Western silence" following the defense ministry’s latest release "proves the integrity of the data."Dhuicq
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