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The BUK that shot down MH17 appears to have been under Russian Military control at all times. That makes it very unlikely that some rogue "separatist" was responsible for downing MH17 in an "accident".
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This is just a speculation, as there is no evidence for that, and your claim is actually quite implausible.
What is it with you guys and not accepting evidence ?
I just showed that a high-ranking Russian GRU officer was responsible for all military operations in the Luhansk area.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/05/25/mh17-russian-gru-commander-orion-identified-oleg-ivannikov/So the BUK from the 53rd brigade that shot down MH17 was under GRU control inside Ukraine.
That's not 'speculation' any more Hefaistos. A GRU officer was in charge.
What IS speculation is the following :
What is lacking, is some understanding of the facts on the ground in Eastern Ukraine, i.e. Donbass. This is, as a matter of fact, Russian country. It's populated by Russians, the only language spoken is Russian. They don't feel they belong to Ukraine. Also, there are lots of highly trained military personell, or ex-military personell in Donbass. You could easily find operators for Buk systems, especially the older ones that date back to the 1980's, like the one that seems to have been used to down MH 17.
Now THAT is speculation.
Besides, according to intercepted phone calls, the BUK came "with a crew".
Which would make sense for such a piece of complex military equipment.
There is a lot of mutual interest between Donbass separatists and Russia, and a lot of ways that the separatists could have gotten support, e.g. in the form of military equipment. However, there was never an official policy from Russia to supply the separatists with soldiers or military equipment, and I think it's implausible that the BUK was supplied through official channels.
Please get your head out of the sand.
No Russian military equipment crosses the border without approval from the Ministry of Defense. It would actually be a crime under Russian law.
Besides, a GRU officer was in charge of the transfer.
What the Russian military says:
"In a statement on Friday, the Defense Ministry said the missile engine’s unit number, which indicates that it was manufactured outside Moscow in 1986, proves that the weapon fired at flight MH17 wasn’t in the Russian military’s arsenal, because Russia’s armed forces decommissioned and scrapped all 1986-generation missiles in 2011. The ministry pointed out that Ukraine didn’t receive a single new missile for its Buk missile system after 1991, suggesting that it would likely have needed to rely on older Soviet munitions."
Ah. The Russian military said that ? Oh. Then it must be true, because the Russian military never lies.
OK, well, they lied here (starting a few days after MH17 came down) :
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/07/16/russias-colin-powell-moment-how-the-russian-governments-mh17-lies-were-exposed/and they lied about their previous lies here :
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2016/09/26/russian-defence-ministry-presents-evidence-faked-previous-mh17-evidence/and they lied again on a range of subjects here :
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/02/10/truth-behind-russian-embassy-netherlands-russias-strength-truth-branding-proposal/but surely they would not lie when they said that the 9M38M1 missile (which was used to shoot down MH17) no longer being used by the Russian military, would they ?
Oh. Oops. They lied about that too :
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/06/03/evidence-the-russian-military-supplied-the-type-of-missile-used-to-shoot-down-mh17/Darn. Even Putin was caught with two of them in the background :
And then there is this :
Reuters’ photographs taken on a road near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (yes that is Russia) dated August 16th 2014 :
And look : The one on the right is labeled 9M38M1 manufactured in 1986.
You know, it doesn't surprise me any more that Russia lies about every aspect of MH17.
What DOES surprise me is how many Putin-apologists like you keep on repeating these lies on this forum.