MH17: ‘strong indications’ Putin signed off on supplying missile that hit plane

A view of the wreckage to the cockpit of flight MH17. International investigators have implicated Vladimir Putin in the downing of the plane. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images

There are “strong indications” the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, personally signed off on a decision to supply the missile that downed flight MH17 in 2014, a team of international investigators has said.

The Boeing 777 was flying over eastern Ukraine when it was shot down by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile in July 2014, killing all 298 people onboard.