RUSSIA vowed yesterday to veto a UN Security Council resolution on setting up an international tribunal into the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine a year ago.

Moscow’s UN ambassador Vitlay Churkin warned that a Malaysian draft resolution that includes proposals for a tribunal to prosecute individuals over the shooting down of flight MH17 would lead to a dangerous “confrontation” between east and west.

The airliner was brought down in war-torn Ukrainian on July 17 2014, killing all 298 people on board. Western powers accused anti-fascist forces in the east of the country and Russia itself, while Russia blamed the Kiev coup regime.