MH17 was downed by Russia’s BUK from the 53rd brigade based in Kursk, - JIT.

The Dutch-led international criminal investigation by the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) announced on May 24, 2018, that it is convinced the Buk missile that brought down MH17, killing all 298 people on board, came from Russia’s 53rd Antiaircraft Missile Brigade, based in the southern city of Kursk. The open-source investigation collective Bellingcat had previously identified that brigade as the source of the BUK missile launcher that the JIT says was used to shoot the plane down on July 17, 2014, over ter