[RaveOn]

“You don’t know why the Ukrainian PM and cabinet members resign? If that’s the case, what are your other qualifications? And let me ask you this, by claiming that there was a Ukrainian military jet in the vicinity, isn’t that a tacit admission that the separatists shot the jet down in the first place? Why do you need radar tapes?”

Favor me. Why did the Ukrainian PM and members of his cabinet suddenly resign on Friday?

Radar tapes: there’s this little thing called “evidence” which seems to have fallen out of fashion among some FR posters. The Ukrainian fighter jet was recorded by Russian radar near the airliner before MH17 went off radar, and the Ukrainian government is silent on that.

Why?

[Tailgunner Joe]

The Ukrainian PM resigned because the ruling coalition collapsed when two smaller parties, Udar and Svoboda withdrew from the coalition. Since no group of parties has a majority of parliament seats, new elections will have to be held. The IMF wants Ukraine to agree to austerity measures in order to get a loan, specifically they want Ukraine to raise gas prices. The small populist parties are against the austerity measures.

This will likely result in a stronger position for President Poroshenko whose party will likely be a big winner in the new elections. Poroshenko is from Kiev, and he ran for President against Yulia Tymoshenko, who is from Dnepropetrovsk. The PM who resigned, Yatseniuk, is a member of Tymoshenko’s party. The collapse of the governing coalition therefore represents a victory of the populist Maidan forces in Kiev over the oligarchs of the Dnepropetrovsk clan.

[mac_truck]

The Ukrainian fighter jet was recorded by Russian radar near the airliner before MH17 went off radar, and the Ukrainian government is silent on that.

The Ukrainians have also not released the air traffic control tapes seized by their Security Services, which may shed light on whether another plane was nearby.