The Latest: Russia calls probe into MH17 downing ‘biased’

Tan Sri Dato' Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, center, Fred Westerbeke, second right, and Wilbert Paulissen of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) take their seats for a press conference on the preliminary results of the investigation into the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines jetliner flight MH17 in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. The disaster claimed 298 lives. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) Tan Sri Dato' Sri Khalid Abu Bakar, center, Fred Westerbeke, second right, and Wilbert Paulissen of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) take their seats for a press conference on the preliminary results of the investigation into the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines jetliner flight MH17 in Nieuwegein, Netherlands, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. The disaster claimed 298 lives. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

By Associated Press September 28, 2016 3 min read

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands (AP) – The Latest on the probe into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014 (all times local):

4:50 p.m.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says a Dutch-led criminal investigation into Malaysian jet crash is “biased and politically motivated.”

Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Central Crime Investigation department of the Dutch National Police, said Wednesday that communications intercepts showed that MH17 was shot down from an area in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia-backed separatists with a missile from a Buk launcher. He said the launcher had been brought in from Russian territory and returned back to Russia later.

The conclusions were billed as results of a two-year Dutch-led criminal probe of the July 17, 2014, downing that claimed all 298 lives on the plane.