Dutch officials confirmed that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down by a Russian-made missile and criticised Ukraine for not closing its airspace over its eastern regions despite the conflict.
In the first official investigation into the crash that killed 298 people in July last year, the Dutch Safety Board was careful not to apportion blame for the missile, which the US and its allies say was fired from territory in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian-backed rebels.
Amid the fallout from the tragedy, which has greatly added to tensions between Moscow and the west, Russia staged its own event hours before the report was released to insist that its allies were not responsible.