A puzzling new report on the downing of flight MH17
Puzzling indeed …
On Tuesday 5 May the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published a hitherto unknown report about the downing of flight MH17. It was reportedly drafted by (anonymous) engineers working in Russia’s military-industrial complex. Novaya Gazeta itself did not draw conclusions from the report, other than the headline ‘It was a Buk M1’, and by writing that the report raised ‘new questions’. That it certainly does.
The official line in the Russian Federation is that flight MH17 was downed by an Ukrainian Su-25 ground attack fighter plane. But the new report rejects that conclusion. Its authors have studied pictures of the wreckage, their distribution over a relatively wide area, and for example the picture of shrapnel published earlier this year by Dutch RTL correspondent Jeroen Akkermans.
The conclusion of the new inquiry: flight MH17 was downed by a Buk M1 surface-to-air missile. The engineers also calculated the probable location from which the missile was…
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