The District Court of The Hague has found that the passenger jet MH17 was shot down by a Buk missile system from a territory that was not under the control of Ukraine.

Judge Hendrik Steenhuis stated this during the announcement of the court's decision in the Schiphol court, the correspondent of "European Pravda" reports.

"The court is of the opinion that MH17 was brought down by the firing of a Buk missile from a farm field near Pervomaiske," the judge said, reading a long list of evidence and expertise confirming both the place of launch and the fact that it was a Buk missile system.

The court also considered other versions of the disaster, including those that Judge Steenhuis called "fantastical."

"Other theories regarding the launch site were ruled out based on evidence that the Buk missile was launched from a farm field near Pervomaiske," he emphasised. The court also studied the possibility that another plane was the target and ruled it out.

However, the court believes that the Buk air defence system was primarily brought from the Russian Federation to shoot down Ukrainian military aircraft. Therefore, following the MH17 disaster, this system was "quickly moved back to the Russian Federation, hoping that it would prevent an international scandal."

The court believes that the intention to shoot down military and not civilian planes does not reduce the guilt of the accused. "The defendants, who are not combatants, had no right to attack a military plane as well."

Earlier, the Hague Court recognised that Russia had controlled the "DNR" during the downing of the MH17 passanger jet.