They may have not offered any alternative theories for Western consumption, but their internal state media openly discuss a theory that it was shot down by an Ukrainian fighter plane.
hamster3null: And your point? Moscow's internal state media is tasked with supporting the Kremlin narrative that Kiev has been taken over in a coup d'etat by a bunch of western supported degenerate fascists intent on doing harm to the noble orthodox god-fearing Russian people. That what they disseminate internally they do not try to sell to the global media is a very clear indication that they know it cannot pass the straight-face test outside of Russia. inside of Russia of course is an entirely different story. Consider, they even attempted to float the suggestion that inasmuch as Putin was flying back to Moscow from Brazil the very same day the Ukrainians where intent on shooting down his plane but mistakenly shot down MH17. The Russians are xenophobic, they dislike and distrust the west intensely, this stuff goes over big in Russia