Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from a launcher brought into Ukraine from Russia and located in a village held by pro-Russian rebels, international prosecutors said yesterday. The findings counter Moscow's suggestion that the passenger plane, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July 2014, was brought down by Ukraine's military rather than separatists.All 298 people on board, most of them Dutch, were killed.The conclusions were based on thousands of wiretaps, photographs, witness statements and forensic tests during more than two years of inquiries into an incident which led to a sharp rise in tensions between Russia and the West.Among the key findings were the plane was hit by a Russian-made Buk-9M38 missile fired from the rebel-held village of Pervomaysk and that the launcher was transported into Ukraine from Russia."This Buk trailer came from the Russian Federation, and after the launch it was returned," said Wilbert Paulissen, chief investigator with the Dutch national police.Russia - which has always denied Moscow or pro-Russian rebels were responsible - rejected the conclusions, saying they were not supported by technical evidence.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said yesterday its data had "identified all flying objects which could have been launched or were in the air over the territory controlled by rebels at that moment"."The data is clear cut ... there is no rocket. If there was a rocket it could only have been fired from elsewhere," he said. ..