BUNNIK, Netherlands -- An international team of investigators says that detailed analysis of video images has established that the Buk missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 nearly four years ago came from a Russia-based military unit.
Wilbert Paulissen of the Dutch National Police said Thursday that the missile was from the Russian military's 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade based in the Russian city of Kursk.
The probe "has come to the conclusion that the BUK-TELAR that shot down MH17 came from 53rd Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade based in Kursk in Russia," Paulissen said.
"The 53rd Brigade forms part of the Russian armed forces," he continued.
Paulissen was speaking at a presentation of interim results of the long-running investigation into the downing of flight MH17.
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