Air failure

“This is not an accident,” said US Vice-President Joe Biden yesterday. “Apparently, the plane was shot down in the sky. I say“ apparently ”because we do not have all the details. I want to be sure that I say.” And he repeated: "Apparently, he was shot down. He was shot down, and did not break as a result of an accident."

Biden became the highest -ranking face in America, who said openly that representatives of intelligence and Pentagon spoke on conditions of anonymity.

If the Malaysian liner is shot down, this is a war crime. In the zone over which he flew, there are fighting. The parties to the conflict are required to comply with international conventions on the laws and customs of war, even if they did not sign them.

The initial message of Interfax implied an accident. "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 on the ground in Ukraine," the agency was not named by the name "Source in Aviation Circles."

This message was published at 19:03 Moscow time. After 11 minutes, an addition appeared on the Interfax website: "The liner collapsed near the village of Snezhnoye, near Donetsk, where battles are going on."

And a minute later, the commander of the separatist forces, Igor Strelkov made a record on his VKontakte page showing that he was aware that the plane was knocked down, but does not yet know that this is a plane of a foreign company. The recording style is mocking calm:

In the Torez area, the An-26 has just been shot down, it is lying somewhere behind the Progress mine. They warned - not to fly "in our sky." And here is the video confirmation of the next "birdfoot".

Subsequently, this record was removed from the blog. Instead, others appeared - that Boeing was shot down by a Ukrainian attack aircraft that there are eyewitnesses of this attack and that after the attack on Boeing, the attack aircraft himself was shot down by separatists. This version fell into the Russian network media - it was presented with reference to the "authorities of the Luhansk People's Republic."

Why did Kyiv need to shoot down Boeing? Strelkov’s answer: This is a “provocation of Ukrainian security forces” in order to draw into the armed conflict of the United States and NATO:

Earlier, the separatists have repeatedly proudly reported the aircraft they had shot down by Ukrainian Air Force. On June 29, they tried to bring down the passenger plane of the DNIPRAVIA company, which performed the Kharkov -Tbilisi flight.

Strelkov, who went too far, and he does not have provocation, is needed. He dreams of drawing Russia into the war, forcing her to enter regular troops into the conflict zone. He repeatedly published desperate calls for Moscow and even threatened Putin with the fate of Milosevich if he did not do it.

But Putin did not heed calls or threats. He already realized that an adventure called "Novorossiya" comes to an end and we must look for some decent exit from the impasse. And the tragedy near Donetsk is an ideal way to get rid of the reconstructor who imagines himself Napoleon and became extremely dangerous.

Strelkov understands this. He swept away. He promises the "humanitarian corridor" to international experts. Warns that Kyiv is preparing a missile blow to the place of crash in order to destroy evidence.

On The New York Times, an editorial article has appeared last night, which states that it is time to finish the war and the death of the Malaysian airliner should be the last call for Putin. And nearby - that, according to American intelligence, the aircraft was attacked by the Buk anti -aircraft missile system, which the shooters and the Russian troops located near the border have.

To wrap up, puff up this business will not work. Yesterday, the Russian president has already made a rather miserable attempt to do this. Not the case. Not Nord-Ost, not Beslan, not even the catastrophe of the Polish President’s aircraft, the investigation of which Moscow managed to take control. The nearest analogy that Moscow must focus on is the destruction by the Soviet fighter of the South Korean Boeing on September 1, 1983, which became a formidable foresight of the death of the empire.