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Posted on 07/17/2014 10:15:00 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Shortly before reports surfaced that a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had crashed in eastern Ukraine, a separatist leader boasted on social media that his men had shot down an aircraft.
In a post on his VKontakte page, Russia's largest social media site, separatist leader Igor Girkin, aka Strelkov, wrote: "In the vicinity of Torez, we just downed a plane, an AN-26. It is lying somewhere in the Progress Mine. We have issued warnings not to fly in our airspace. We have video confirming. The bird fell on a waste heap. Residential areas were not hit. Civilians were not injured."
The AN-26 is a Soviet-built twin-engine transport plane used by the Ukrainian military. Torez is a small city of 80,000 located some 40 kilometers east of Donetsk. Included in the post were two videos that showed a rising plume of black smoke in the distance.
The claim was posted at 5:50 pm Moscow time, shortly before reports surfaced that the Malaysian civilian aircraft, on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, had crashed in eastern Ukraine in the same area near the Russian border.
A Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser, Anton Herashchenko, claimed the plane had been shot down by a ground-to-air missile.
Andrei Purgin, the self-styled first vice premier of the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic, told Interfax the separatists do not have weapons that could shoot down a plane flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
Both Ukrainian and Russian authorities have denied shooting down the Malaysian passenger aircraft.
Gee... let’s see.
Malaysian Airliner.
Mysterious Crash (could have been missile).
Why does that ring a bell ?
“Shortly before reports surfaced that a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had crashed in eastern Ukraine, a separatist leader boasted on social media that his men had shot down an aircraft.”
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Exactly. They were shooting at anything.
If this holds up this guy is in deep trouble. Everyone will be after him.
The Ukraine, Russia,, and the West.
Asta la vista bebé!
As long as IFF is Russian for "hold my Vodka and watch this."
Show us your “video conformation” dude
If the Russians gave high-altitude SAMs to these gomers, then they’re as much to blame as the rebels.
Out of curiosity, how is it apparent the plane was shot down by that particular (Buk SAM) missile?
Yeah, Girkin (Strelkov) has apparently already scrubbed it; he’s forgetting that what happens on the internet stays on the internet. It’s already circulating all over the web.
Stepping on his own cojones? Hell, he tripped right over them, did a tumble and landed flat on his face. This is a major international incident, no doubt about it.
And worse - at least as far Girkin is concerned - he just made Putin look like a fool.
I get the feeling that’s a rather dangerous thing to do.
So, what you’re saying is, “they were bucked from the git go.”
If indeed the Russian separatists are on the site sweeping for evidence, you can bet that evidence tying them to the missile will go the way of Lois Lerner’s hard drive. Lois...pick up the white phone,...you’re needed in Donetsk.
How long till that carrier goes belly up? Their planes are dropping from the sky (okay one plane we’re not exactly sure where it is).
bfl
Bookmarked as first evidence that rebels shot down commercial airliner.
What is this guy, an Islamic? Boasting of this? Yeesh.
This is getting old. I don’t want the US involved but if we sent all of our cops over there, their dogs won’t have a chance
Wow!!! What a catch!!!
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday the Obama administration’s foreign policies in a number of areas have enhanced the world’s “tranquility” – a word that raised eyebrows as reporters pointed to situations in Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine and the South China Sea.
On radar they probably look the same. Plane was at 33,000 ft.
Obama is to blame for this.....
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