The Russian Investigation Committee will hand over Almaz-Antei’s radar data on the MH17 crash over southeastern Ukraine to the Netherlands, Investigation Committee Spokesman Vladimir Markin told TASS.

He clarified that in June 2016 the Russian Investigation Committee had sent a request to competent Russian agencies and structures, including the Almaz-Antei concern, to provide a number of materials, which, according to the Dutch side, could contribute to the MH17 investigation in response to an inquiry made by the National Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Netherlands.

"The Dutch side asked for, among other things, for the unprocessed preliminary radar images of the Ukrainian airspace in the Lugansk/Donetsk region in a period when the MH17 flight (Malaysian Boeing) crashed," Markin explained.

"The Almaz-Antei concern has received the necessary information on the crash from the main processors of the Rostov air route surveillance radar from one of its enterprises - the Lianozovo electro-mechanical plant. The Russian Investigation Committee, which received that information, is going to hand it over to the Dutch side soon," Markin said.

He added that the Russian Investigation Committee had already replied to a number of Dutch inquiries concerning the MH17 crash.

"The Russian Investigation Committee has been cooperating with international criminal investigators on this case since November 2014 and has already replied to a number of inquiries of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Netherlands on legal assistance. Dutch investigators have received considerable volumes of the information requested as well as other facts," Markin told TASS.