Byaki and "Buki"

In Ukraine, the largest tragedy has occurred for all the time that Russia is destabilizing the east of a neighboring country with the help of its agents. In one day , almost 300 people were killed - more than the Ukrainian army lost in three months of armed confrontation. And the worst thing is that the dead had nothing to do with the conflict between the Ukrainian government and pro -Russian militants.

Who knocked down Boeing 777, on board the Dutch and Malays, French and British, Americans and Australians? Surprisingly, it is relatively easy to answer it - thanks to the tendency of one of the leaders of the separatists, Igor Girkin, to PR. He was the first to report on social networks about the death of the aircraft and immediately posted two videos that captured this event. It is possible that the survey was carried out by the performers of the attack. Girkin’s statement in his blog should be reproduced completely according to the scan (he has already deleted the post). Here is what this kind man wrote : "07/17/2014 17.50 (Moscow time). Message from the militia." In the Torez area, An-26 has just been shot down, it is lying around the Progress mine. They warned - not to fly in "our sky". And here is the video - confirmation of the next "birdfoot". The bird fell by the Terricon, the residential sector did not hook. Peaceful people were not injured. And also there is information about the second shot down aircraft, as if Su. "

True, a refutation appeared on Strelkova-Girkin’s blog, however, with the recognition that there was still: “Attention !!! Information about the confusion of the aircraft was taken from the forum where local residents and militias communicate. At the time of publication, all users thought that the next An-26 Nazis was shot down, and the post on the confusion, which we had been duplicated, had already walked along many public motions Antimaydana.

The Prochrevsky resource of Lifenews also managed to report the destroyed Boeing of the Ukrainian An-26 about the Boeing. And then, when the clips laid out by Girkin began to demonstrate as the fall of Boeing, a stream of lies went on Russian television channels. It was claimed that the Boeing was shot down by the Ukrainian military. True, two mutually exclusive versions were nominated here, and both with reference to eyewitnesses-captives: either the plane shot down the Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft (the same one that Girkin wrote about as militias shot down), or the Ukrainian air defense system "Buk". In confirmation, they referred to some mythical Spanish dispatcher Carlos, who seemed to be conducting the Malaysian Boeing and saw on the radar screen how two Ukrainian fighters attacked him. And Interfax, with reference to the Federal Air Transport Agency, generally agreed to the point that in reality the goal of the Ukrainian missile was the board No. 1 of the President of Russia, which is seemingly very similar to Boeing 777 in the silhouette. Well, the stamp of Russian propaganda worked here, according to which the Bandera dill not in our heroic colorades in Donetsk and Lugansk, but in our all - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. For some reason, no one wondered: will the Ukrainians believe that in the conditions of the current confrontation, Putin’s security will risk directing board No. 1 through Ukrainian territory? And in the end, the guarantor of the Russian constitution arose on the screens and cynically accused the Ukrainian side of the death of Boeing, because, they say, the flight took place in the Ukrainian airspace. It was as if he himself did not do everything possible, through the supply of heavy weapons and thousands of mercenaries, as well as air defense systems, so that Ukraine does not control the part of the territory and airspace, where the unfortunate Boeing was shot down. And he also promised that the Russian military would assist the investigation of the tragedy. You can guess how exactly they will contribute. I’m afraid if in the next couple of days the Ukrainian army does not take control of the area where a disaster occurred, we will never see an objective investigation on the spot.

If you analyze the existing facts, then an unbiased observer is unlikely to have doubts about who exactly is to blame for this tragedy. To begin with, the Su-25 attack aircraft is simply not able to knock down Boeing, flying at an altitude of 10600 m. And indeed, "drying" acts at significantly lower heights, because it works on terrestrial purposes. And Ukrainians really do not need to place such complexes in the Buki ATO zone that amazes the goals at high altitudes, since the separatists do not have aviation. And even more so Ukrainians would never have accepted a passenger aircraft for the Russian military transport. Just because they know very well: Russian transport aircraft will not fly over the territory occupied by the separatists. After all, they do not control a single airfield, and the transporters simply have nowhere to sit down. The version that the Ukrainian missile fell into Boeing by accident, during the training launch, refers to the 2001 tragedy, when the Ukrainian missile in Crimea was mistaken instead of an educational target was shot down by an Israeli passenger aircraft . But who will conduct training starts in the anti -terrorist operation zone, where air defense batteries can easily become a victim of sabotage groups and where there are no suitable goals for them at all?

But the statement that the militias of Donbass do not have the means of air defense, capable of hitting goals at high altitudes, frankly deceitfully. Indeed, at the beginning of the week, both separatists' sites and Russian television channels, choking with delight, reported a great victory-the militia managed to bring down the military transport An-26. And he flew at an altitude of 6.5 km, where no MANPADS will reach.

But do not console your conscience by the fact that the Boeing was shot down by the scumbag Girkin, who, they say, does not obey anyone. No, the operators of the anti -aircraft complex were probably Russian personnel military specialists. Among the militias from among the natives of Donbass there are simply no such specialists. Yes, and Girkin is a Russian, my fellow countryman -Moscow, who is a retired colonel of the FSB. And according to the Ukrainian side, up to 300 Russian military personnel operates in the Donbass. One "green man" seemed to be captured. What is the point! Even if the Russian military manage to identify, the commanders-commanders in their homeland will immediately present an order according to which he was dismissed from the ranks of the army or the FSB no later than June of this year.

And we, the Russians, are also responsible for the fact that we allow Putin to support terrorists in the Donbass, on the conscience of which hundreds and hundreds of innocent victims.

But after the Boeing, knocked down over the Donbass, we can hope that America, Europe, and the rest of the world will understand: the Ukrainian crisis affects them in a direct way, and only the most rigid sanctions can stop the aggressor.