REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KIEV -- Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Tuesday said servicemen working under Russia's security services shot down the MH17 airliner over rebel territory in eastern Ukraine last year.

"I personally have no doubt that this was a planned operation of the Russian special services aimed at downing a civilian aircraft," Yatsenyuk told a televised cabinet meeting.

The missile systems could only have been operated by "trained Russian servicemen," he added.

Russia blames Ukrainian forces for downing the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 on July 17 2014.