Russia rejects 'biased' UN ruling on downed Malaysian airliner

MOSCOW, May 13 (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected as "biased" a ruling by the U.N. aviation council that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2017 that killed all 298 passengers and crew.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was not part of the U.N. investigation and would not accept its conclusions.

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, and was shot down over eastern Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces.