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Russia's high-ranking military officials, Army General Staff Main Operative Department head, Lt.-Gen. Andrei Kartopolov (L), and Air Force General Staff head, Lt.-Gen. Igor Makushev (2nd L), speak with journalists in front of a map of the air traffic situation and air defense locations in the area of Donetsk during a briefing on Malaysian plane crash specially called in Russia's Defence Ministry in Moscow, on July 21, 2014. Russia said today its flight records show a Ukrainian fighter jet was flying close to the Malaysian passenger airliner just before it crashed and that Kiev was operating radar stations used for missile systems. Moscow also denied supplying Ukrainian separatists with Buk missile systems or any other weapons as it sought to head off international accusations it was responsible for the downing of the Malaysian plane with 298 people on board. AFP PHOTO / DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV (Photo by DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV / AFP) (Photo by DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV/AFP via Getty Images)