Ukraine accidentally shot down a passenger plane in 2001.
They have the Buk missile, in exactly this area.
If you want to write an article that covers “everything we know about the theory a Buk missile shot down the plane”, it is a gross omission not to mention these facts.
If the plane was an accidental shooting down, how can anyone justify a stronger punishment than was given to Ukraine when they accidentally shot down a passenger plane in 2001?
Wouldn’t it have been common sense not to overfly a warzone, a tiny part of Ukraine, which is easily avoided?
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?
You aren't understanding something: The "separatists" already admitted that they were shooting "exactly in this area," that the Buks are theirs (though they deny it now), and also, it's just plain stupid to claim that the photographed Buks in "exactly this area" are Ukrainian when the place is run by Russkies.
Ukraine accidentally shot down a passenger plane in 2001.
And like us, they also admitted the mistake. The Russkies are blaming it on Ukraine and on secret NATO plots after their guys looted the corpses, and left them rotting for 3 days, to show us all how humane they really are.
Wouldn’t it have been common sense not to overfly a warzone, a tiny part of Ukraine, which is easily avoided?
It was 10KM up in the sky, about double the range of MANPADs and anything else they ordinarily had. The only way they'd be shot down is if a state government, with trained officers, fired on it, which is exactly what happened.
The "separatists" already admitted to shooting it down. They even took the time to erase their online postings after they did it, but only after it was quoted and preserved widely, doubling down on the stupid.
BUK systems are not much good in the hands of the Ukrainians since SAMs are programmed NOT to shoot down Russian planes.
Shirley you knew that —