Ukrainian intelligence official claims MH17 shot down by missile built in Russia

The surface-to-air missile that was used to bring down the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was built in Russia, a Ukrainian secret service official has said.

On the basis of counterintelligence data, Vasily Volk claimed that the weapon was transported from the Russian Federation, reported The Daily Star.

Volk added that the crash was not "an ordinary murder or crash."

The plane was shot and people died at the hands of those who launched the weapon from the territory of the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic), he said.

All the 298 people onboard MH17 were killed when the plane went down over eastern Ukraine in July last year.

The tragedy was blamed on Russian-backed rebels.