Russian officer linked to downing of Malaysia Airlines flight: report
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
25.04.2017 11:00
The organiser of the transport of a Buk missile system, which is believed to have shot down a Malaysian airlines flight over Ukraine, is likely Russian officer Sergey Dubinsky, Russia’s Novaya Gazeta has said, according to the Ukrayinska Pravda website.
Dutch and Australian police investigate the wreck of flight MH17. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/defensie.nl.
A Novaya Gazeta journalist recorded a telephone conversation with Dubinsky and sent it, along with a separate recording, allegedly regarding the organisation of the Buk missile system’s transport to the Donbass region in Ukraine, and sent them to the Institute of Neurology and Physiology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden for comparison by speech analysis experts, Ukrayinska Pravda reported.
The Swedish experts assessed the probability that the voice belonged to the same person was a level two, on a scale ranging from -4 (highly unlikely) through a neutral 0 to +4 (highly likely), the website said.
“The results of their study support the hypothesis that the compared voice samples belong to one and the same person,” the Novaya Gazeta said, according to Ukrayinska Pravda.
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down while flying over Ukraine killing all 298 people on board, most of them from the Netherlands.
The Reuters news agency reported that international prosecutors said the plane was shot down by pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, but that Moscow claimed Ukraine’s military was responsible. (vb)