Why are you willing to parrot Kremlin propaganda but unwilling to accept at face value what a GRU Colonel said? Strelkov said: We shot it down! Why is this difficult?
Tell me which of these facts are Kremlin propaganda, and which are simply absolutely true.
1) Ukraine accidentally shot down a passenger plane in 2001.
2) The Ukrainian military has the exact same Buk Missile system, in the same area.
3) The Donetsk/Luhansk warzone is a tiny part of ukraine. It would have been common sense and very easy to avoid. All American and British airlines avoided it, as well as Qantas, Lufthansa...