US Permanent Representative to the UN Nikki Hailey accused Moscow of stirring up the conflict in Donbass. She said this on Tuesday, May 29, at the first meeting of the UN Security Council in the current year devoted to the situation in eastern Ukraine.

"Despite the white embroidered denials, there is no doubt that Russia is the driving force in the Ukrainian conflict," said Haley.

Moscow must admit its guilt in deploying its military in eastern Ukraine, she said.. These steps by the Kremlin were undertaken not to protect the Russian-speaking population, "but to establish Russian control" over Ukrainian territories, the US permanent representative is convinced.

According to Haley, Russia must "put an end to the annexation of the Crimea" and settle the conflict. The last Moscow is able to do it alone, she stressed..

Another topic discussed by Security Council members was the results of the investigation of the crash of Boeing-777, which carried out the MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Representatives of the International Investigative Group on May 24 said that the "Buk" installation, from which the missile was shot, belonged to the Russian Armed Forces. Since two-thirds of the victims were Dutch nationals, an air crash investigation is being conducted in this country.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Stef Blok, who was present at the meeting of the Security Council, called on Moscow to recognize the results of the investigation and fully cooperate with the investigation. The Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, in turn answered him with a categorical refusal: "No one is allowed to talk to Russia in the language of ultimatums". The conclusions of the International Investigation Group the Russian diplomat called "groundless".

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin, who spoke last, in response, said he was not surprised at such a reaction from the Kremlin, and called the incident with the Malaysian aircraft "an act of terrorism".

A representative of the Netherlands police, Vilbert Paulissen, reported on May 24 that the "Beech", from which they shot at the liner, according to the investigation, was in service with the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade stationed in Kursk. The rocket, apparently, was produced in 1986 at a plant in the Moscow region Dolgoprudny. The investigators called on everyone who can know in which part the missile was delivered, to report this on full confidentiality.