Russia sent powerful rocket launchers to the separatists who shot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane, the United States claimed last night.
An American intelligence report also alleged that President Putin allowed separatist fighters to receive training inside Russia — including on the air-defence systems apparently used to bring down MH17.
The same report claimed that three BUK-M1 surface-to-air missile units of the type believed used for the attack, which killed nearly 300 passengers and crew, were hurriedly taken back into Russia at night, within hours of the incident on Thursday.
The US said that the weapons had been part of a convoy of 150 military vehicles that secretly crossed into Ukraine days before the atrocity.
The details of apparent Russian complicity were revealed yesterday