The head of the "Sukhoi Sturmoviks" again denied the version of the General Staff of the Russian Federation: the Malaysian Boeing in Ukraine was not shot down from the air

The version that the airline of Malaysia Airlines was shot down by the air-to-air missile, released by the Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft, said the chief designer of this combat aircraft, the head of the Sukhoi Sturgery Scientific and Production Concern, Vladimir Babak. He expressed his opinion in an interview with German broadcasting corporations NDR and WDR, as well as the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, whose material in the Russian translation partially publishes Inopressa .

“I think that the Su-25 was stated in order to cover the traces. I can’t explain it otherwise. We don’t understand how the Su-25 could bring down Boeing,” Babak said. According to him, this machine is “constructed in such a way that it can be used at small and medium heights,” and it can only rise “briefly” to a large height. MH17 followed just at such a height) Babak’s “beloved brainchild” is beyond the power, “at the same time the Su-25 would have been a high probability”, the German newspaper also retells his words that the designer also noted that to destroy the civilian liner, “heavy missiles are needed”, and from the “air-air” rocket would only be damaged, and would not fall into parts, and did not fall apart. However, it happened "(formulation of Süddeutsche Zeitung).

"Thus, it seems that the version nominated by the Russian General Staff is finally refuted that the Ukrainian military aircraft could be involved in the destruction of Boeing," writes Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The correspondents of the publication also talked with the Ukrainian pilot Vladislav Voloshin, to whom Russian television channels attributed the liquidation of the airliner. He denies his involvement in the disaster and claims that the Russian media distorted the meaning of his statement. In the television portage, citing a defector, it was reported that Voloshin, knocking down the board MH17, said: "Today was a bad day." According to Voloshin himself, he really uttered this phrase, but not on July 17 (on this day, according to him, he did not climb the air at all), but on July 23, after the separatists shot down two military aircraft ruled by his colleagues.

Having set off to the place from which, according to the Bellingcat civil journalism group, a fatal rocket was released, German journalists received verbal confirmation from local residents that there was a “beech” and even a typical sound of a shot was heard. Whether the installation was captured by the rebels or whether they received it from Russia, remains unclear, the authors of the article note, noting that in the Western intelligence services they are inclined to the second option. For the summer of 2015, the publication of the final conclusion of the International Commission for the Investigation of the Death of Airliner is scheduled. In the preliminary option that was published last year, the culprits of the incident were not named.

Recall that Vladimir Babak previously rejected the version that the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by the Su-25 attack aircraft: he publicly announced this shortly after the disaster. Nevertheless, it is this version that is constantly advanced as the main Russian media.