DISINFO: Kyiv and the West shot down flight MH17 in attempt to kill Putin or discredit Russia
SUMMARY
What should have been an open, international and objective investigation turned into a slapstick deception, fraud and cover-up of mass murder by the NATO powers.
There is compelling and irrefutable evidence that it was Kyiv regime forces that shot down the plane with 283 passengers and 15 crew on board, with the actual connivance or subsequent assistance of the United States and of their allies.
The governments of all these countries are guilty of a crime against humanity, a war crime. The purpose of this crime is unclear.
There are two possibilities: Kyiv hoped to assassinate President Putin who was reportedly flying through the region in a similar plane, although the Russians have not confirmed this information.
The other hypothesis advanced is that the murder of the passengers of the plane was to drive the point even further and thus discredit the Russian government.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation about downing of flight MH17 and attempt to confuse the public with multiple false claims, to discredit the Joint Investigative Team (JIT) and sow distrust in the verdict of the trial.
The verdict of the court published on 17 November 2022 was based on strong pieces of evidence and alternative scenarios were evaluated but excluded based on the evidence.
Russia data, namely radar data and the "field experiment" conducted by the Russian military company Almaz-Antey is only a small sample of misleading claims advanced by Moscow about the downing of MH17, some of which have contradicted one another.
The data provided by Moscow, in the words of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, "offered contradictory results":
After years of requests, the Russian Federation finally provided primary radar data. Assessment of these data in July 2014 and September 2016 by the Russian authorities offered contradictory results. Data of a second radar system in Buturinskaya, which - according to the Russian July 2014 assessment - recorded MH17 shortly before it was downed, have not been provided. In February 2020 the Russian authorities informed us that these data were not retained. We do not think further investigation could offer any new radar data or additional opinions on the existing data.
See here and here for further debunking by Bellingcat and Polygraph.info, respectively and our interview with the Dutch Safety Board, tasked with investigating the cause of the crash of MH17.
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