(VOVworld) – A Russian missile maker has hinted that the Ukrainian government was involved in the downing of Malaysian Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine last year.

The photo, taken on July 18, 2014, shows the wreckage of the Malaysia Airline MH17, a day after it crashed in eastern Ukraine. (Photo: AFP)

Mikhail Malyshevsky, who advises the director general of the Almaz-Antei consortium, which produces Buk missile systems, said in Moscow on Tuesday that damage done to the plane showed the impact of an old Buk-M1 system, which is still held in Ukraine’s arsenal. Malyshevsky said his analysis is based on photographs taken from the plane wreckage previously made available to public. Almaz-Antei’s Director Yan Novikov said the model of the Buk missile that he thinks was used against Flight MH17 is no longer in service by the Russian military but still exists in Ukraine’s arsenals.

Flight MH17 crashed on July 17, 2014 over Ukraine’s volatile Donetsk region while en route from the Dutch city of Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 passengers, including 3 Vietnamese and crew on board were killed. The crash occurred under unknown circumstances.