The report based on investigations by Bellingcat, which described itself as a group of citizen investigative journalists, said the Buk missile launcher had originated in Russia and was part of a convoy headed towards the Ukrainian border in late June.
The report said there was was strong evidence indicating that the Russian military provided separatists in eastern Ukraine with the Buk missile launcher.
Bellingcat said film and photographic evidence showed that the Buk missile launcher was transported from Donetsk to Snizhne.
"The Buk missile launcher was unloaded in Snizhne approximately three hours before the downing of MH17 and was later filmed minus one missile driving through separatist-
controlled Luhansk," the report said.
The report entitled MH17: Source of the Separatists’ Buk is based on investigations headed by British investigative journalist, Eliot Higgins.
The report, however, did not pinpoint who actually fired the missile.
Flight MH17 bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing 298 people including 43 Malaysians.
This is the second tragedy involving a MAS B-777 aircraft, after the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 on March 8 when it was en-route to Beijing.
The US and Russian governments have both said who they believe was behind the aircraft's downing, each citing intelligence information that is not publicly available.
The United States said its satellite imagery proved it was shot down with a ground-to-air missile by Russian-backed rebels. Russia says a Ukrainian military aircraft downed it.
An interim report in September by the Dutch Safety Board, which investigates air crashes, said there were several civilian airliners flying nearby but no military aircraft that would have been capable of shooting it down.
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