Russia's ambassador to Australia Grigory Logvinov has rejected the Australian Government's demand that Moscow admit its role in the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner MH17 and pay the 298 victims' families compensation.
Late last week Australia and the Netherlands declared they held Russia legally responsible for shooting down the plane.
But Mr Logvinov described the Joint Investigation Team which pointed the finger at the Russians as relying on information "gathered from social networks and several international non-governmental organisations, which have tainted themselves long ago by fakes, forgeries, primitive fabrications".
He added "dirty provocations are organised, and the guilty side is determined in advance".
Mr Logvinov accused the investigation of ignoring Russian evidence, saying "substantial legal, physical and other data, contesting all this fakes, are blatantly rejected and ignored".
He was responding to Foreign Minister Julie Bishops' earlier demands that Moscow come clean and pay reparations to the grieving relatives of those killed when the jet was hit by a missile.
The Boeing 777 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down on July 17, 2014.
All 298 people on board were killed including 38 Australians.
The jet came down just 50 kilometres from the Ukraine-Russia border, in an area which was the scene of fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatist rebels.
The Russian ambassador said despite the demands Russia would still co-operate with the investigations but warned "it is time to get rid of the illusion, that someone can speak with us in such a prosecutorial(sic) manner and expect that we will resignedly accept these unsubstantiated allegations".
Julie Bishop has accused the Russians of spreading misinformation and deliberately misleading the international community about its role in the downing of MH17.
