“Strong Indications” Putin Approved Missile System Transfer
Speaking to the subject of the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service’s Joint Investigation Team set forth on Wednesday, 08 February 2023, that it had identified “strong indications” that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally approved the decision to provide Ukrainian separatists the Russian-made Buk-TELAR missile system by which MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. The investigators stated that in the week’s prior to the MH17 atrocity, leaders of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) appeared to have been in “close contact” with Kremlin advisers and the Russian int