Three years ago in the sky over the east of Ukraine the Malaysia Airlines airliner flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Despite the fact that since then Russia accuses Ukraine of the incident, it is highly probable that the Russian air defense system Buk-M1, which the Russian army transferred to the war zone in Ukraine, has brought down the liner with hundreds of passengers on board, writes Bild. There was "one detail that even more strongly denounces Russia and its President Putin," reports the tabloid.

The Russian Forbes magazine drew attention to the report of Dutch investigators published in October 2015, which said that the Russian authorities on July 16, 2014 - that is, just the day before the MH17 flight crash - closed the airspace around Rostov-on-Don, which borders With airspace over the zone of military operations in Donbass.

And the most surprising thing about this is that in notices for NOTAM pilots two heights were indicated, below which it was impossible to be in the air near Ukraine, the correspondent writes.. The aircraft were first forbidden to fly below the FL260 (7,900). M), and then - below FL530 (approximately 16.1 thousand. M).

The warning was in force from midnight on July 17, 2014, that is, it was done only 17 hours before the volley on the plane flying at an altitude of 10 thousand. Meters, the correspondent writes.

Experts do not rule out that "this was a precautionary measure by the Russians in order not to bring down any Russian aircraft in the radius of the Buck missile. "And if this is so, then the Russian leadership should have known about the forthcoming application of the Buk complex, and perhaps even gave the order to use it," reads the article.