Yesterday was is one year since the Russian army’s 53rd Air Defence Missile Brigade (based out of Kursk) shot down Malaysian Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine using an SA-11 missile fired from TELAR 312. Australia got ahold of a video shot by some of the first Russian rebels (local Rambo wannabes) who arrived on the scene right after the shoot-down. That is when they told “DNR” commanders in real time that the plane thought to be a Ukrainian transport was actually a civilian airliner. Next thing they did at the crash site was to secure it by going through bags of the victims and taking out things like phones and other things of value. Scum.
“DNR” video of MH-17 impact site and looting right after shoot-down
Making things worse is the fact that Russia, which just a day after the shoot-down demanded in the UN Security Council that an international investigation be started at once, now is vehemently against one (because they know that the evidence that one of their SA-11s did it is incontrovertible). In fact, if the issue is proposed and comes to a vote in the UNSC, Russia will veto it. That will just be the final confirmation that Russia was the guilty party, but sadly those responsible, up to Putin of course, will probably never be held responsible. However, the Dutch, who have pieced together the wreckage, recovered numerous fragments from it of the shrapnel from the SA-11 warhead, and have been able to identify the course of the oncoming missile, will probably be releasing their findings in the coming months. Those findings will point to only one possible culprit–Russia.
Russian “DNR” monument at Hrabove to 298 “innocent victims of civil war”
Sick display–”DNR” residents “remember” MH-17 victims with banner saying “They killed you and continue killing us”
The anniversary was marked by a sick display at Hrabove Ukraine where the wreckage impacted, as “DNR” leader Zakharchenko arrived in uniform with his heavily armed bodyguard of regular Russian Spetsnaz soldiers, and a number of locals turned out with “DNR” flags. One sick banner said on it “They killed you and they continue killing us” (correct actually if the “they” is Russia). Others held the flags of the countries of the victims, though the Malaysian flag was put upside down making it into the Polish one. A sick little monument was dedicated, written in Russian, stating that 298 innocent victims of the civil war died there. A “civil war” where most of the “pro-Russian” dead and wounded are repatriated to another country–Russia–is no civil war. It is a war of invasion, full stop.
“DNR” Kremlin-appointed boss Zakharchenko arrives with his Russian Army Spetsnaz bodyguards
In another hypocritical move, Russian Foreign Minister and supreme liar Lavrov brought flowers to the Dutch embassy in Moscow. Somebody should have thrown them in his face. In any case, the ceremony and Lavrov’s sick move were nothing but pure cynicism.
Lavrov cynically brings flowers to the Netherlands embassy in Moscow
