Feb 6 (Reuters) - Russian state-owned lender Sberbank

on Thursday said it disagreed with a U.S. court's

decision to reject the bank's right to sovereign immunity in a

case brought by the family of a victim of the 2014 MH17 airline

disaster.

Sberbank said it would continue to fight the case.

The U.S. court ruled on Tuesday that the family of American

Quinn Schansman, who was killed when a Malaysian Airlines plane

was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, can sue Russia's largest

bank for allegedly providing money transfers to a group blamed

for downing the plane.

"We have studied the judgement in our appeal, which took the

U.S. Court of Appeals more than 14 months to issue," Sberbank

said. "Sberbank does not agree with it and will continue to

defend its interests in this case."

In a 3-0 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in

Manhattan said Sberbank was not entitled to sovereign immunity,

after being accused of using the U.S. banking system to funnel

donor money to the Russia-backed separatist group Donetsk

People's Republic (DPR).

Schansman was 18 when he boarded the flight to Kuala Lumpur

from Amsterdam on July 17, 2014, for a planned family vacation.

The plane was shot down over DPR-controlled territory in eastern

Ukraine by a surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people on

board.

Russia has denied involvement. Ukraine had previously

declared the DPR a terrorist organization, while the United

States had imposed sanctions on the group.