A DUTCH investigation into flight MH17 will confirm the Malaysia Airlines plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine last year was shot down by a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile.

The report by the Dutch Safety Board, a government transport watchdog, will be published on Tuesday during the unveiling of a partial reconstruction of the Boeing 777, which was pieced together from debris collected from the crash site.

Experts retrieved shrapnel from the missile in the remains of the plane, as well as from the bodies of the 298 passengers and crew, all of whom died in the disaster on July 17 last year.

Sources close to the investigation told The Sunday Times the report will confirm the damage to the aircraft was consistent with a mid-air