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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, when it was downed.

Now victims' relatives have revealed international prosecutors had determined the missile was launched from territory held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.

They have viewed a report by the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) before its release today.

It confirms a Russian Buk missile downed the plane and was fired from rebel-controlled territory.

Moscow has reacted fury, accusing the investigation of being "biased and politically motivated", while insisting that no Russian missile systems have crossed the Ukrainian border.

(Image: PA)

At the time of the incident, pro-Russian separatists were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the region.

The Boeing 777 broke apart in midair, flinging wreckage over several miles of fields in rebel-held territory.

Bodies fell out of the plane and it is thought some of the victims were alive when they fell.

(Image: REUTERS) (Image: GETTY)

The prosecutors from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine have said they will release details of the firing location and type of BUK missile used in the attack, taking them a step closer to identifying individual culprits.

Prosecutors cannot file charges because there is no international agreement on what court a case would be heard in.

The British victims were: