WASHINGTON – The US State Department has declined to answer questions about what information Washington may have shared with the Dutch authorities in the MH-17 probe, the Russia Today channel reported on Friday.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 on board, most of them citizens of the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Board released a report into the incident last October, concluding the plane was shot down by a surface-fired anti-aircraft missile.
However, recently revealed government correspondence admitted the investigators had no raw radar data, useful footage or satellite images of the missile launch.
Among the questions raised by Dutch MPs was an issue concerning raw radar data and satellite imagery that the United States claimed to have in its possession and which it called strong evidence.
When asked about this data, State Department spokesperson John Kirby referred reporters to the Dutch government, insisting only that the US was “working together” with the investigators.