The Russian Defence Ministry on Monday showed photos they said proved that Ukrainian surface-to-air systems were operating in the area at the time when the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine.

Russian officials also said they had evidence that a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet had flown "between 3 to 5 kilometres (2 to 3 miles)" from the Malaysia Airlines jet.

"(The plane) is armed with air-to-air R-60 rockets, which can hit a target from a distance of up to 12 kilometres (7 miles) and guaranteed within 5 kilometres (3 miles)," said the chief of Russia's General staff, Andrei Kartopolov.

The defence ministry officials insisted that Russia had not given the rebels any surface-to-air missiles and added they have no evidence that any missiles were launched at all.

The Russian officials also asked the United States to share any satellite images of the launch.

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1. Wide of news briefing at Russian Defence Ministry headquarters

2. Mid of Lieutenant-General Andrei Kartopolov, head of the main operations department of the Russian Army General Staff, speaking

3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Kartopolov, Head of the main operations department, Russian Army General Staff :

++OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAY ZOOM IN TO GRAPHICS ILLUSTRATING HIS STATEMENT++

"The Russian air situation control registered the climb of the aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian air forces, supposedly SU-25, toward the Malaysian Boeing (Malaysia Airlines flight MH17)."

4. Wide of news briefing

5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Kartopolov, Head of the main operations department, Russian Army General Staff :

++OVERLAID WITH CUTAWAY OF GRAPHICS ++

"The SU-25 (Ukrainian) aircraft was flying three to five kilometres away from the Boeing (Malaysia Airlines flight MH17)."

6. Mid of news briefing

7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Kartopolov, Head of the main operations department, Russian Army General Staff :

++OVERLAID WITH CLOSE UP OF GRAPHICS++

"It (the Ukrainian plane) is armed with air-to-air R-60 rockets, which can hit a target from a distance of up to 12 kilometres (7 miles) and it can definitely hit within 5 kilometres (3 miles)."

8. Wide of news briefing

9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Pakushev, Chief of Air Force, Russia's General Staff:

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++THIS SOUNDBITE IS INTERLACED BY SOUND OF TRANSLATOR INTERPRETING IN ENGLISH++

"At 17:21:35 pm, at the place where the Boeing (airplane) was falling apart, a new mark showing a new object appeared. This air object was observed steadily by the radio-location posts "Ust-Donetsk" and "Buturinskaya" for four minutes. The air-controller requesting the characteristics of the newly-appeared object could not get data of its parameters because most likely an aircraft of the second type of identification system was not equipped like military crafts usually do."

10. Wide as conference ends

A Russian state-controlled missile-maker on Tuesday said that it's own investigation of last year's crash of the MH17 airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe.

Results of the Dutch investigation are to be released later on Tuesday.

Yan Novikov, head of the Russian Almaz-Antey concern, speaking at a news conference, did not specify what was in the report and he did not say whether he had been given an advance look.

The Malaysian airliner crashed on 17 July 2014, in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine, and is widely believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

Ukraine and Western countries contend the missile was fired by Russian troops or Russian-backed separatists.

The allegations have focused on the Russian-made Buk missile system, which has several variants.

Novikov said evidence shows that if the plane was hit by a Buk, it was fired from the village of Zaroshenske, which Russia says was under Ukrainian government control at the time.

A Russian state-controlled missile-maker on Tuesday said that it's own investigation of last year's crash of the MH17 airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe.

Results of the Dutch investigation are to be released later on Tuesday.

Yan Novikov, head of the Russian Almaz-Antey concern, speaking at a news conference, did not specify what was in the report and he did not say whether he had been given an advance look.

The Malaysian airliner crashed on 17 July 2014, in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine, and is widely believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

Ukraine and Western countries contend the missile was fired by Russian troops or Russian-backed separatists.

The allegations have focused on the Russian-made Buk missile system, which has several variants.

Novikov said evidence shows that if the plane was hit by a Buk, it was fired from the village of Zaroshenske, which Russia says was under Ukrainian government control at the time.

Moscow - 13 October 2015

1. Panel at news conference

2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yan Novikov, General Director of Almaz-Antey:

"The results of the experiment completely disprove the conclusions of the Dutch commission about the type of missile and the place of launching. Today we can definitely say and will show in presentation that if the Boeing 777 was shot down with air defence missile system "Buk" it was hit by missile 9M38 from the Zaroshenske settlement. After two experiments, the only unclear issue for us is presence of submunitions of missile 9M38M1 with I-beams among evidences attached to this case."

3. Video presented on screen at news conference depicting preparation for experiment

4. Various of explosions shown in video at news conference

5. Cameramen

6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mikhail Malyshevsky, Advisor to Chief Engineer of Almaz Antey ++NOT VERBATIM++ ++SOUNDBITE OVERLAID BY GRAPHIC OF PLANE SHOWN DURING PRESENTATION++

"Based on the comprehensive analysis of the plane's damages, we made the conclusions that the most significant damages were in the pilot's cabin, mainly on it's left side, and the fuselage of plane, mainly on the bends. That is very important because we paid special attention to the damage of the fuselage specifically showing the order of the plane's destruction."

7. Various of images of cabin damage shown on screen at news conference

FILE: Hrabove - 18 July 2014

8. Wide of Malaysia Airlines wing in field of wheat

9. Scattered luggage and passenger's belongings

10. Close of passenger's Malaysia Airlines medical record book and passport holder

11. Scattered belongings and luggage including "I HEART Amsterdam" T-shirt

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FILE: Hrabove - 21 July 2014

12. Various of a crane lifting pieces of plane wreckage

13. Emergency workers standing next to wreckage

14. A large piece of wreckage being overturned