MH17: Russia reveals 'witness' who blames Ukraine pilot

Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine

MH17 crash

Russian investigators say a Ukrainian serviceman has provided evidence that a Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed in July may have been shot down by a Ukrainian air force pilot.

A "secret witness" told a Russian newspaper this week that an Su-25 fighter pilot had fired his air-to-air missiles at the wrong aircraft.

Ukraine has rejected the claim as fake.

Flight MH17 from Amsterdam was downed over eastern Ukraine on 17 July with the loss of all 298 people on board.

Suspicion immediately focused on a Russian-made Buk missile launcher seen in territory controlled by pro-Russian rebels at the time.

The head of the Dutch-led criminal inquiry, Fred Westerbeke, told Dutch broadcaster NOS on Saturday there were "very many indications" that the plane had been brought down by a missile filed from a Buk rocket launcher.

Wreckage arrives at Gilze-Rijen airbase (9 Dec)

Wreckage from the plane has been taken to Gilze-Rijen airbase in the Netherlands to be analysed

However, all options were being kept open and the possibility of the plane being shot down from the air was being considered, he said.

Russia's authorities have already suggested that a Ukrainian fighter jet brought the plane down, however when state TV broadcast a picture of the moment it said an air-to-air missile had been fired, it was widely dismissed as a fake.

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The latest Russian evidence came to light after a man contacted Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, saying he had been at Aviatorske airport near the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk when flight MH17 was shot down.

The 298 victims of flight MH17