Qa'dah 15, 1435, Sep 10, 2014, SPA -- Ukraine is fully responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, dpa cited Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying. "The catastrophe happened in the airspace of Ukraine, which bears all responsibility for what happened," Shoigu said during a meeting with his Malaysian counterpart Hishammuddin Hussein in Moscow. The tragedy could have been avoided had Ukraine not decided to use its armed forces to solve its domestic problems, the Russian minister told Hussein. It was the first comment from a Russian government official after the Netherlands published an interim report on the crash on Tuesday. Many of the 298 people on board the airliner were Dutch.