MH17 shot down by Ukrainian combat jet, airbase employee claims

PETALING JAYA: A Ukrainian airbase employee has claimed that Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian combat jet, Russian daily tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reports.

The employee, who chose to remain anonymous, claimed that a Ukrainian Su-25 jet had carried air-to-air missiles out from the Aviatorskoe airbase, near Dnepropetrovsk on the day MH17 was shot down but returned without them.