You think that was well done?
Then do you agree with him that the shooter knowingly targeted a passenger plane?
The "former" Communists operate under the basis of provocation, and they have been killing themselves to accomplish it for a long time. They were already shelling their own cities in the East from Russian soil to blame on the Ukrainians, and I know their character well enough that shooting down a plane would not be very out of character for them. There is a great deal of evidence, even more powerful than what we've seen here with the airline, that the FSB bombed Russian apartment buildings to stick the blame on the Chechens in order to start a patriotic war. I also know that the "separatists" are in direct contact with GRU handlers from Russia, receiving orders, which they themselves have admitted to, as the reference to Bezler in the article shows. I also know that it is very unlikely the these Buks would have been manned by just anybody, and most likely there is a mixture of "volunteers" recruited from Russia and GRU officers on the scene.
It is not against their character in any way, although, it certainly is a great failure on their part, if it was indeed on purpose, that they failed to shut their "separatists" up after the deed was done, which put the blame square on them instead of the Ukrainians they would have likely wanted to blame.