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The MH17 accident killed 298 people, all on board (Photo: REUTERS / Maxim Zmeyev)
Russian Oleg Pulatov, accused of shooting down Flight MH17 in the skies of Donbas in 2014, personally answered questions from his lawyers. This is his first public statement on the case, according to BBC News Ukraine.
Oleg Pulatov: one of the four people accused of participating in the accident of flight MH17 and former deputy commander of military intelligence «DNR “.
A video of Pulatov’s meeting with lawyers on Tuesday was shown in court in the Netherlands. The Russian claims that the day before the disaster and at the time of the MH17 accident, he was involved in reconnaissance and led his unit in the area of the Stepanovka and Marinovka settlements. (near the accident site). According to Pulatov, from July 16 to 17, 2014, he did not speak to anyone, did not order transportation, did not accompany or transport the Buk anti-aircraft missile launcher, from which the plane was shot down.
«I didn’t even know at all if the militia had that Buk system, ”he said, adding that he knew about the Buks of the Ukrainian army deployed in the Zaroshchenskoye settlement area.
Ukraine provided the Netherlands with information on the location of all its Buk facilities as of July 2017; this information coincided with information from the Dutch military intelligence, and the version that the MH17 could have been shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces by Buk was discarded.
We recall, on November 3 in the Netherlands the hearings were resumed in the case of the downing of the MH17.
In early 2020, the Dutch prosecutor’s office prosecuted four suspects in the case of the MH17 crash over Donbas.
Among the suspects: Sergei Dubinsky (call sign Khmury), Igor Girkin (callsign Strelkov), Oleg Pulatov (indicative Gyurza), Leonid Kharchenko (Mole call sign).
The Malaysian Boeing-777 accident occurred on July 17, 2014. A Malaysia Airlines plane flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board died.
The joint investigation team, which is conducting an international investigation into the crash, believes the plane was shot down by a missile fired from a Buk anti-aircraft missile system near the village of Snezhnoye. At the same time, investigators are confident that the missile system was delivered to Ukraine from Russia.
