On June 23, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution stating that Russia was responsible for the downing of flight MH17 of the Malaysian Boeng-777 in the sky over Donbass in 2014.. This was reported on the PACE website..

PACE believes that the plane was shot down by a missile fired from a Russian-provided Buk air defense system, and that Russian-backed armed groups committed. In addition, PACE unanimously approved a resolution stating that it is stunned by the "

“Instead of providing reliable information to the competent investigators of the agency, the Russian authorities are spreading disinformation, including consistent conflicting versions of events designed to sow confusion.. As shown by open source intelligence published in many reports, the Russian authorities even went so far as to give out manipulative radar, satellite and other data in order to hide the truth,” the PACE website says..

The Assembly refutes the allegations that a Malaysian aircraft allegedly shot down a Ukrainian SU-25 or MiG-29 fighter, or that the Ukrainian military did it from its Buk air defense system and from Ukrainian-controlled territory.

The Assembly called on Russia to cooperate in good faith with the authorities investigating the crash, in particular, to provide proper satellite and radar data on the downed aircraft. Russia was also called on to officially apologize to the relatives of the dead passengers of flight MH17 for the pain and suffering caused by this disinformation.. In addition, PACE called on the European Court of Human Rights, if possible, to give priority to the applications of relatives of the victims of the aircraft accident..

Recall, on June 11, a court in the Netherlands found four Russian servicemen guilty of deliberately shooting down MH17 aircraft.. Attackers are responsible for the deaths of 298 people. The verdict will be announced by the end of 2022.. However, one of the suspected Russians turned to a Dutch court with a video message in which he asks to be found not guilty..