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A polygraph test has verified claims by a former Ukrainian airbase employee who suggested in a newspaper interview earlier this week that flight MH17 was possibly downed by a Ukrainian air-to-air missile, a Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson said Wednesday, according to Sputnik.

The witness, whose name was not disclosed to protect his relatives still living in Ukraine, said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper earlier this week that he saw a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 combat jet taking off from an airbase in eastern Dnipropetrovsk carrying air-to-air missiles and returning without them on the day of the MH17 crash.

"The facts and information obtained from the witness, who was able to recall them clearly and consistently, confirms to be true to the investigators and, besides, his testimony was verified in a polygraph test," spokesperson Vladimir Markin told journalists.

"The investigative committee will continue gathering and analyzing all information about the disaster. If members of an international commission investigating the crash are indeed interested in finding out the truth and decide to request information from us, we are ready to share all available data," Markin said.