Russian state television has released a satellite photograph that it claims is evidence a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, reports ABC News.

Russia's Channel One TV station released the photo Friday which seems to show a Ukrainian fighter plane firing a ground-to-air missile in the direction of Malaysia Flight 17. The Russian television station claims to have received the photo from the Russian Union of Engineers, a Moscow-based organization that had previously claimed the Ukrainians were to blame for the plane's demise.

Ivan Andriyevsky, the organization's vice president, said on television that the image was received by email from a man claiming to be a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate and an aviation expert.

The U.S. State Department dismissed the Russian TV reports as "preposterous" and an attempt to "obfuscate the truth and ignore ultimate responsibility for the tragic downing of MH17," according to ABC News.

The U.S. government once again asked Moscow and Russia-backed separatists to "grant unfettered access for international investigators to the crash site."

The Boeing 777, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, carried 298 people who were killed when it was shot down July 17 over a rebel invested region of Ukraine. Ukraine, along with the West, has accused rebels with Russian ties of using a ground-to-air missile to take down the aircraft.

According to reports by ABC News and other media, Mark Solonin, a Russian engineer and author, said in his blog that both aircraft were crudely edited into a satellite picture.

Other aviation bloggers have said the commercial airliner in the photo appears to be a different plane-a Boeing 767.

The Russian television station stands by their report.

Pro-Russian separatist rebels in Ukraine have repeatedly denied shooting down the MH17.