New Zealander Robert Ayley, pictured here with wife Sharlene, was killed when Flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over Ukraine in 2014.
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says he is deeply concerned by a new report which says Russian forces shot down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet.
Two New Zealanders were among the 298 killed when Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.
A Joint Investigative Team has
now reported that the surface-to-air missile which brought down the plane originated from the 53rd brigade of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
Peters, who is in Beijing, said New Zealand had full confidence in the investigative team's work and said it had been methodical, careful and impartial.
He called on all parties to cooperate with the investigation – as agreed in a United Nations Security Council resolution.
