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Ukraine hasn’t said how it immediately
knew rebels downed Malaysian plane, notes the Russian Foreign Ministry,
as it unveils 10 awkward questions for Ukraine (and perhaps the US 'snap
judgment') to answer about the MH17 disaster. However, what is perhaps
more concerning for the hordes of finger-pointers is that:
- RUSSIA HAS IMAGES OF UKRAINE DEPLOYING BUK ROCKETS IN EAST: IFX
- RUSSIA: UKRAINE MOVED BUK NEAR REBELS IN DONETSK JULY 17: IFX
- RUSSIA DETECTED UKRAINIAN FIGHTER JET PICK UP SPEED TOWARD MH17
Obviously, if there is proof that this
is so, aside from CIA-created YouTube clips, these would deal another
unpleasant blow to US foreign policy.
The Russian defense ministry during its press conference which concluded minutes ago:
Here is the full clip of the Russian
ministry releasing its own forensic analysis of what happened to flight
MH17 (with English translation).
Russia wants to know why Ukraine moved its BUK missiles systems the day of the MH17 crash:
- RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF HAS SPACE IMAGES
OF SECTORS OF UKRAINIAN FORCES' POSITIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN UKRAINE,
INCLUDING BUK MISSILE LUNCH SITES 8 KILOMETERS FROM LUHANSK - RUSSIAN
DEFENSE MINISTRY - interfax
The day the Malaysian airliner crashed,
the Ukrainian forces deployed an air defense group of three or four
Buk-M1 missile batteries near Donetsk, Lt. Gen. Andrei Kartapolov, head
of the Russian General Staff's Main Operations Department, told
reporters on Monday.
"These surface-to-air systems are
capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 35 kilometers at an
altitude of 22 kilometers. For what purpose and against whom were these
missile systems deployed? As is known, the militia has no aviation," he
said.
Russia has the flight paths of the
Ukrainian fighters and MH17. Furthermore, it is asking the same question
we asked last Thurday:
- RUSSIA SAYS MH17 DIVERGED 14 KM FROM FLIGHT PATH NEAR DONETSK
And wants to know why. The image (as seen in the presentation above) allegedly shows Ukraine fighter jets near MH17:
Here is a screengrab of a Su-25 fighter jet detected close to MH17 before crash.
“A Ukraine Air Force military jet was
detected gaining height, it’s distance from the Malaysian Boeing was 3
to 5km,” said the head of the Main Operations Directorate of the HQ of
Russia’s military forces, Lieutenant-General Andrey Kartopolov speaking
at a media conference in Moscow on Monday.
“[We] would like to get an explanation
as to why the military jet was flying along a civil aviation corridor at
almost the same time and at the same level as a passenger plane,” he
stated.
“The SU-25 fighter jet can gain an
altitude of 10km, according to its specification,” he added. “It’s
equipped with air-to-air R-60 missiles that can hit a target at a
distance up to 12km, up to 5km for sure.”
The presence of the Ukrainian military
jet can be confirmed by video shots made by the Rostov monitoring
center, Kartopolov stated.
And asks for US proof of their accusations:
- RUSSIA SAYS U.S. SATELLITE FLEW OVER
MH17 AT TIME IT WAS DOWNED... which would provide all the proof needed
to show who is responsible - so why hasn't the US explained this or
shown it?
- RUSSIA ASKS U.S. FOR EVIDENCE ROCKET FIRED FROM REBEL-HELD AREA
- RUSSIA: NO U.S. PROOF THAT MISSILE FIRED FROM REBEL-HELD AREA
- DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS RUSSIA DID NOT
DELIVER ANY SA-11 BUK MISSILE SYSTEMS TO SEPARATISTS IN EASTERN UKRAINE
"OR ANY OTHER WEAPONS"
And went on to rebuke all the Twitter photos created by Maidan to 'prove' the BUKs were moving in Russian hands.
The global public expects a speedy and
independent investigation into the causes of the disaster Malaysian
aircraft in the airspace of Ukraine.
In order to conduct an objective
investigation of possible leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the
Russian Federation has ased ten questions to the Ukrainian side.
1. Ukrainian authorities immediately
identified the militia as the perpetrators of the tragedy. What is the
basis of such findings?
2. Could official Kiev to report all the
details of using [BUKs] in a war zone? Most importantly - why these
systems are deployed there, as the militia no planes?
3. What are the causes of inactivity of
Ukrainian authorities on the formation of an international commission?
When such a committee will work?
4. Are the armed forces of Ukraine
international experts to present papers on accounting for missiles,
air-to-air and ground-to-air ammo and anti-aircraft missiles?
5. Whether these funds objective control
on the movement of the Ukrainian Air Force aircraft on the day of the
tragedy brought international commission?
6. Why Ukrainian air traffic controllers
allowed deviation of the route of the aircraft to the north side of the
"anti-terrorist operation zone"?
7. Why was not completely closed to
civilian aircraft airspace over the combat zone, especially because in
this area there was no solid field of radar navigation?
8. Could official Kiev to comment on
reports in the net, ostensibly on behalf of the Spanish air traffic
controllers working in Ukraine, which shot down over the territory of
Ukraine "Boeing" was accompanied by two Ukrainian military aircraft?
9. Why Security Service of Ukraine has
begun without international representatives work with recordings of
talks with Ukrainian crew dispatchers "Boeing" and Ukrainian radar data?
10. How were the lessons from previous
similar disasters Russian Tu-154 in 2001 in the Black Sea? Then the
leaders of Ukraine until the last minute denied any involvement of the
Armed Forces of the country to the tragedy until irrefutable evidence
showed no guilt official Kiev.
Unfortunately, there has been no
response by the Ukraine side to these questions so far. We expect that
there will be some answers.
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Needless to say, this places Ukraine and
The US (as main protagonist of "finger pointer") in an awkward position
as finally someone, somewhere will have to present some actual facts
instead of merely continuing the "emotional appeals" propaganda.
We expect many of these questions to be
answered once the contents of flight MH17's black box are revealed
and/or when Ukraine finally releases an undoctored version of the Air
Traffic control recording with the doomed flight.