Washington - The U.S. authorities have said that a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was shot down from a separatist-controlled area in eastern Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Marie Harf has said.
“We detected a surface-to-air missile launch from a
separatist-controlled area in southeastern Ukraine,” she said at a
briefing on Monday, July 21.
Harf said she had not seen reports of the Russian General Staff data on this subject.
She said that the United States had sufficient grounds to assume that
the plane had been shot down by a surface-to-air missile from territory
controlled by separatists. Furthermore, Harf also said that the U.S.
knows that the militants had a Buk air defense missile system.
When asked if she could submit any proof of this, besides the data
from social networks, Harf promised she would find out whether such data
could be given to journalists.
