Terror at height

Boeing-777 Malaysian Airlines collapsed in Ukraine near the Russian border. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in aviation circles.

"Boeing of Malaysian airlines, which performed the flight Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur, 50 km before entering the airspace of Russia began to decline, subsequently found it burning on the ground in Ukraine," the source said. Liner was supposed to cross the Russian border at about 17:25 Moscow time.

On board there were 15 crew members and 283 passengers. These were mainly tourists flying to Malaysia to rest. According to Ukrainian Pravda, there were about 80 children among passengers. Later, Malaysia Airlines clarified that there were three children among passengers. It was reported that there were 23 US citizens on the plane. However, so far the representative of the State Department Jennifer Psaki has not confirmed this information.

The plane went at an altitude of 10 thousand meters. He fell in the area of ​​the village of Grabovo near the border of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, Ukrainian Pravda reports .

"The Ukrainian security forces from the ATO forces do not have air defense systems in the operation. At the same time, the air defense systems are constantly used in this region by pro -Russian terrorists and units of the Russian Armed Forces," said Dmitry Tymchuk, the leader in information resistance.

“Just over Torez, terrorists from the Kuala -Lumpur -Amsterdam, the Cuala -Lumpur -Amsterdam, was brought up by Putin’s terrorists, was shot down by the local patriots, the movement of this complex from Torez to Snezhnoye was recorded,” wrote adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.

Later, the Security Service of Ukraine published radio interception materials. It is alleged that these are records of anti -aircraft conversations about the downed aircraft.

“In the Snezhny area, the An-26 has just been shot down, it is lying around the Progress mine somewhere,” Igor Girkin (Strelkov) said at 17:37. However, he later removed this post.

The militants of the "DPR" deny their involvement in the death of the aircraft. “If this is really a passenger liner, then we were not done,” said “Prime Minister of the“ self -proclaimed “republic” Alexander Borodai RIA Novosti. According to him, the militants have no weapons capable of knocking down a plane at an altitude of 10 kilometers.

Currently, the place of the aircraft falls is cordoned off by militants of the DPR. The First Deputy Prime Minister with the DPR Andrei Purgin states that the on-board self-writers of a crashed aircraft will be transferred for examination to the International Aviation Committee in Moscow.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to create a government commission with the involvement of ICAO specialists, the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state reports . He emphasized that the Ukrainian army did not commit any action to defeat goals in the air. “I want to draw your attention that we call it not an incident, not a catastrophe, but a terrorist act,” Poroshenko said , speaking to representatives of the deputy factions.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin entrusted the responsibility of the Boeing’s crash on the Ukrainian authorities. "Of course, the state over which this happened is responsible for this terrible tragedy," he said . According to Putin, "this tragedy would not have happened if there was peace on this earth, in any case, hostilities in the southeast of Ukraine would not be resumed." Putin "gave instructions to military departments so that they provide all the necessary assistance in the investigation of this crime."

Passenger aircraft following from Europe to the Far East are changing the flight path to circumvent the territory of Ukraine. Several large airlines said they would not take flights in the airspace of Ukraine.

Great Britain convenes an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, said a regular representative of Britain in the organization of Mark Laileall Grant.

On Monday, around this area , the Ukrainian military transport aircraft An-26 was shot down . The SBU stated that they have irrefutable evidence that he was fired by the Russian army.

On June 29, representatives of the DPR took control of the military unit of air defense with the Buk anti-aircraft missile systems, ITAR-TASS reported . The quantity and technical condition of the complexes at the disposal of the militias is unknown. This air defense system is able to hit air targets at an altitude of up to 22 km.

On Thursday, at about 13:30, a column of terrorists was recorded in the snowy area, Tymchuk reports . The column included a car tractor with a carriage on which the Buk air defense system was transported. A video recording of the air defense system is published on the Internet. The Facebook "Euromaidan" gives a photograph of "Buk" in the Square in Snezhnoy.