Ukraine rebels deny downing Flight MH17, reject probe findings

Journalists take images of part of the reconstructed forward section of the fuselage after the presentation.

A top pro-Russian separatist commander in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday denied Dutch findings blaming the downing of Flight MH17 on a Russian missile that was fired from rebel-held territory.

"The forces of the People's Republic of Donetsk could not have fired at the plane from a BUK system because we have no such sort of weapons," general Eduard Basurin of the self-proclaimed republic told AFP.