Putin likely approved the supply of the missile system that brought down Flight MH17

Investigators say Putin likely approved the supply of the missile system that brought down Flight MH17.

There are “strong indications” that President Vladimir Putin decided to supply the antiaircraft missile system that Russia-backed separatists used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines jet above eastern Ukraine in 2014, a Dutch-led international team found.

But the team said on Wednesday that it had suspended its criminal investigation because of insufficient evidence and immunity privileges that prevent new prosecutions in the crash of Flight MH17, which killed all 298 people aboard.

The investigators noted that no evidence suggests that Mr. Putin ordered that the aircraft be shot down and that he was, in any case, protected from prosecution under Dutch law because he enjoys immunity as a head of state

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