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Ukraine Separatist Leader Boasts Of Downing Plane
RFE/RL ^ | July 17, 2014

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: crimea; donetsk; gru; malaysia; mh17; putinsbuttboys; randsconcerntrolls; russia; ukraine; vladtheimploder
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To: Gunpowder green

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They claimed to have captured a BUK in June. They tweeted their victory. Whoops.


41 posted on 07/17/2014 11:50:16 AM PDT by cizinec ( For the Republic!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Proving once again that playing chess doesn’t automatically make you a genius.


42 posted on 07/17/2014 12:00:12 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Gunpowder green

I agree it was probably not Russian regulars. But when you put crazy militias in the field, you can get crazy results. I think this is on Putin.


43 posted on 07/17/2014 12:07:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Some western energy stocks are going up in net energy exporters.


44 posted on 07/17/2014 12:09:23 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Here's why some lefties pretending to be conservative are kissing up to Putin.

Obama’s Latest Executive Order Slapping Russia With Sanctions Could Affect Some AK-47-Owning Americans
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3181547/posts

Such people could better live with themselves, if they would simply get an American rifle instead. The better rifles aren't all that complicated.


45 posted on 07/17/2014 12:29:18 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: PGR88

Strelkov, aka Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, is, according to an article by noted writer Bill Gertz, “is a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) colonel who was first identified by the Ukrainian SBU intelligence service. ...While in the Crimea, he was a military adviser to Sergei Asksenov, the current head of Russian-occupied Crimea.”

Bill Gertz, posted on FreeRepublic.com, June 20, 2014, “Ukrainian Rebel Commander Identified as Russia GRU Military Intelligence Colonel”, freebeacon.com, 6/20/14.


46 posted on 07/17/2014 4:18:06 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: PGR88

Strelkov, aka Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, is, according to an article by noted writer Bill Gertz, “is a GRU (Soviet military intelligence) colonel who was first identified by the Ukrainian SBU intelligence service. ...While in the Crimea, he was a military adviser to Sergei Asksenov, the current head of Russian-occupied Crimea.”

Bill Gertz, posted on FreeRepublic.com, June 20, 2014, “Ukrainian Rebel Commander Identified as Russia GRU Military Intelligence Colonel”, freebeacon.com, 6/20/14.


47 posted on 07/17/2014 4:20:40 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Corporate Democrat

04/23/2023 reminder


48 posted on 04/23/2023 6:16:33 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: OwenKellogg

“tranquility” reminder


49 posted on 04/23/2023 6:17:57 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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