Each country has summoned the other's ambassador after Moscow rejected the findings of an international probe into the downing of the plane.

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Russia rejects MH17 report as “biased” JIT has “ignored evidence” Moscow denies any involvement Russia has firmly dismissed a report into the 2014 downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, call

Moscow has denounced as ‘biased’ an investigation into the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

Key events since the MH17 flight disaster

Prosecutors from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine say the Buk missile system used to shoot down the plane was fired from the village of Pervomaysk and later returned to Russia

The families of victims of downed Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 have launched a lawsuit against Russia and its President Vladimir Putin.

Kyiv believes Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by pro-Russian separatists armed with a surface-to-air missile launcher, something that

Russia has issued a scathing response to the Dutch Safety Board’s report into the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. 9K37 #BUK-M1 SA-11

Moscow considers “strange” a request from the Dutch prime minister for Russia to cooperate fully with a probe into the downing of Malaysia Airlines

No-one was awaiting the findings of the Dutch Safety Board’s final report into the MH17 disaster more than the relatives of the 298 people who were

Air traffic control lost contact with MH17 on Thursday 17 July, 2014, at a quarter past three in the afternoon, CET. The Boeing 777 plummeted from

The Dutch Safety Board has concluded that flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made BUK missile. The board published the

The final report about what caused a Malaysia Airlines plane crash last year is expected to be published by the Dutch Safety Board on Tuesday

Investigators in the Netherlands say they have found fragments of a suspected Russian missile system at the site where flight MH17 crashed in

Fragments of debris found at the crash site of Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine may be from a Russian-made missile system, according to investigators

Russia vetoes a UN draft resolution which would have set up a tribunal to try the suspects behind last year's Malaysia Airlines crash in Ukraine. Moscow claims tribunal would be biased.

Family and friends of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster arrived at a memorial service in the Netherlands clutching

People lay flowers at the Dutch embassy in Moscow on Friday to mark the anniversary of the downing of Malaysian airlines flight MH17. As inquiries

“Ukraine has been remembering the victims of the Malaysian plane shot out of the sky in Donbass one year ago. Like then, Ukrainians have brought