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Russia has sensationally claimed Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, saying it didn't have the missile that brought down the doomed jet.

The Buk missile was built at a plant near Moscow during the Cold War and delivered to Ukraine in 1986 when it was a Soviet republic, the Kremlin claims.

A team of international investigators has pointed the blame at Moscow, saying videos and other evidence show a missile launcher being secretly transported into territory held by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

The investigators claim a Russian-made Buk missile brought down the jet and the launcher used in the air disaster - which killed all 298 passengers and crew onboard - belonged to Russia's military.

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But Russia's Ministry of Defence claims those videos have been manipulated, and denies claims that Moscow was involved in the July 2014 tragedy of the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

At a news conference on Monday, Russia's military provided an audio recording which it claims is "proof" that Ukraine was involved in the air disaster.

It claims that the missile used to bring down the jet was no longer in its hands.

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Russian officials claim serial numbers found on missile fragments show the weapon was built in 1986 and it was owned by Ukraine when the jet was shot down.

General Nikolay Parshin told reporters that the missile was sent to Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic military unit 20152, which is now the 223rd anti-aircraft defence regiment of Ukraine's armed forces.

The general claims that unit was involved in Ukraine's offensive against Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk region in June 2014, just weeks before the airliner was shot down.

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In May, the international team of investigators, led by the Netherlands, said Russia's armed forces supplied the missile launcher that fired a Russian-made Buk missile at MH17 over the war zone.

Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Netherlands' national police crime squad, said the missile was fired from Russia's 53rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade.

Moscow is not involved in that investigation, and claims the probe is biased.

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The Russian military's press conference comes just days after two Russian men denied trying to kill double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

The men - two alleged spies named by Britain as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - sensationally claimed in a bizarre TV interview that they were businessmen on holiday and they only travelled to the medieval city to see its famous cathedral.

The interview by Russian state-funded news channel RT was labelled a farce in Britain, as the Government stood by its claims that Moscow was involved in the failed assassination.

Russia has denied claims that it was involved in the Novichok poisoning of the Skripals.