KIEV, July 21 – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has almost exactly established the launch site of a missile that hit a Boeing 777 aircraft of Malaysia Airlines on July 17, said Vitaliy Naida, the head of the counter-intelligence department at the SBU.

"The preliminary materials of the investigation show that the missile was launched near Snizhne (Donetsk region) which is under control of terrorists. Preliminarily we know the exact place from which the missile was launched, but we're not announcing it in the interests of the investigation. Now we're taking measures to get to the place and receive proof, but fighting is underway there," he said at a briefing in Kiev on Saturday.