DISINFO: Ukraine mixed up the MH17 with the Russian president’s plane
SUMMARY
There might be a dramatic turning point in the process on the crash of the MH17. The court in the Netherlands has accepted to hear the evidence from the Russian corporation Almaz-Antey.
This information worries those who have defended Kyiv and supported its war against its own people. It discredits the image of democracy and legitimacy, that Kyiv and the West have attempted to create since the coup d’etat in 2014.
The witness say that Ukrainian air-controllers sent the passenger jet into a war zone, where it was shot down, likely by Ukrainian forces, mixing up the liner with the Russian president’s plane.
RESPONSE
One of the original lies about the MH17. The claim of the mix-up with the Russian President’s plane was documented in pro-Kremlin TV less than four hours after the disaster, and has been parroted several times afterward.
According to the findings(opens in a new tab) of the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) from 2016, flight MH17 was shot down by a missile from the 9M38 series, which was launched by a BUK TELAR missile system. The system was transported from the Russian Federation to an agricultural field near the town of Pervomaiskiy in Eastern Ukraine, from where the missile was launched. After firing, the system, with one missing missile, went back to the Russian Federation. On the 24 May 2018, the JIT announced its conclusion that the BUK TELAR used to shoot down MH17 came from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, a unit of the Russian armed forces from Kursk in the Russian Federation.
The European Union(opens in a new tab) has called on the Russian Federation to accept its responsibility and to fully cooperate with all efforts to establish accountability. On the basis of the JIT’s conclusions, the Netherlands and Australia are convinced that Russia is responsible for the deployment of the Buk installation that was used to down Flight MH17. The two governments are formally(opens in a new tab) holding Russia accountable. In addition, the Dutch government decided(opens in a new tab) to bring Russia before the European Court of Human Rights for its role in the downing of Flight MH17.