Germany says Ukraine rebels downed MH17 with seized missiles

German intelligence has accused pro-Russian rebels of shooting down a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine using missiles captured from government forces, a media report said Sunday. Kiev and the West have previously charged that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky in July by separatist fighters using a BUK surface-to-air system supplied by Russia, charges denied by Moscow. But the head of Germany’s BND foreign spy agency Gerhard Schindler said intelligence indicated the rebels had captured a BUK system from a Ukrainian base and fired a missile that exploded directly next to the plane, Spiegel magazine reported. The Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight crashed on July 17 as it flew over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 153 of them Dutch.

These accusations against us are without any basis.

Andrei Purgin, deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic

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