In more than 50 years. Investigators examining the shooting down of a passenger plane over ukraine in 2014 have disclosed intercepted phone calls that they say indicate close links between senior russian officials and the rebels accused of attacking the aircraft. Nearly 300 people on Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 were killed. In the phone calls, close aides to president putin seem to be organising supplies of weapons for separatist fighters. Gareth barlow has the story. Investigators say the intercepted calls show ukrainian separatists and russian officials were in frequent contact before the attack, with russia directly aware of and influencing administrative, financial and military matters. Translation what we see our separatist leaders, almost on a daily basis, were in contact back then with officials in the russian government. They used a secured phone is an unsecured phones. We suspect these had been provided by the russian intelligence service, fsb. The transcripts appear to show
Back to the classroom. Investigators examining the shooting down of a passenger plane over ukraine, in 2014, have disclosed intercepted phone calls that they say indicate close links between senior russian officials and the rebels accused of attacking the aircraft. Nearly 300 people on Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 were killed. In the phone calls, close aides to president putin seem to be organising supplies of weapons for separatist fighters. Gareth barlow has the story. Investigators say the intercepted calls show ukrainian separatists and russian officials were in frequent contact before the attack, with russia directly aware of and influencing administrative, financial and military matters. Translation what we see are separatist leaders, almost on a daily basis, were in contact back then with officials in the russian government. They used secured phones and unsecured phones. We suspect these had been provided by the russian intelligence service, fsb. The transcripts appear to show
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