Ukraine Security Service Ex-Officer Suggests Kiev Complicit In MH17 Crash

Ukraine Security Service Ex-Officer Suggests Kiev Complicit in MH17 Crash

A former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasil Prozorov, on Monday said he believed Kiev to be involved in the crash of the MH17 Boeing over the eastern Ukraine in 2014

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th March, 2019) A former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasil Prozorov, on Monday said he believed Kiev to be involved in the crash of the MH17 Boeing over the eastern Ukraine in 2014.

"My personal belief, backed by the data, is that Ukraine is involved in the crash of the Boeing," Prozorov said at a press conference in Moscow.

Prozorov explained that the reaction of the Ukrainian leadership to the crash was "phenomenally fast."

"It definitely led one to think that [Ukrainian] President [Petro] Poroshenko and his press service knew about it in advance," the former SBU officer said.

He pointed to the fact that the airspace over the east of Ukraine, where a military operation was being carried out, was not closed off.

According to Prozorov, two people were somehow involved in the crash or the cover-up: the deputy head of Poroshenko's administration who headed a counterintelligence department in the past, Valery Kondratyuk, and the current head of the chief intelligence directorate of the Defense Ministry, Vasyl Burba.

The MH17 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed near the city of Donetsk on July 17, 2014. All 298 passengers and crew members were killed.