OREANDA-NEWS. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that the investigation into the collapse of the Malaysian Boeing in Ukraine in 2014 was overly politicized, the Malay Mail newspaper reported. "They blame Russia, but where is the evidence? We know that the rocket that hit the plane was of the Russian type, but it could also be made in Ukraine", he said at a press conference in Tokyo. Mohamad stressed that the militia or the Ukrainians could shoot down the aircraft, "because they also have the same rocket".

The prime minister also said that Malaysia should participate in the study of black boxes, but "for some reason" the country wasn't allowed to study recorders. “We don’t know why we were removed from the study, but from the very beginning we see too many policies in this, the idea wasn't to find out how it happened, but it seems to have concentrated on trying to put the blame on the Russians" he concluded.

The Malaysian Boeing-777, flying flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on July 17, 2014 near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. On board were 298 people, they all died. Most of the victims were nationals of the Netherlands. Kiev blamed the crash of the militias. They replied that they didn't have the means that would allow the aircraft to be brought down at that altitude. The investigation is led by an international team led by the Netherlands. In her report, it is stated that the Buk was hit from Russia by Boeing of the air defense system, and then returned. Moscow stated about the bias of the investigation, whose conclusions are based only on data obtained from Ukraine.

The experiments of the Almaz-Antey concern, the leading enterprise for the production of air defense systems, including Buk complexes, also confirm that Boeing was shot down from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian army. However, this information was ignored by investigators.