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Tragedy MN17: Shrapnel from evidence
The Boeing Malaysia Airlines is shot down by the Earth-Air Class Rocket, released from the ZRK-RAM (air defense system) of Bukhi. The rocket is launched from a territory controlled by the Donbass separatists. The murder gun of 298 people, including 80 children, was brought from Russia and after less than a day sent back. Such conclusions came the United Investigation Team (JIT) as part of representatives of the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine, which published the results of a criminal investigation of the causes of the disaster. No direct accusations against Russia are put forward. But for the Kremlin, which continues to insist that Russia is not a side of the conflict in the east of Ukraine and is in no way involved in the tragedy of the MN17 flight, this can hardly serve as a consolation: evidence that speaks exactly the opposite, direct and indirect. And the chances of avoiding a tremendous international scandal is less and less: the Russian ambassador was already called to the Dutch Foreign Ministry, and this is far from the final. What is the conclusions of the investigation, how Moscow reacted to them and whether the guilty ones will be named - analyzed the New Times
July 17, 2014 ... Time is about 18:00. A burnt -out field under the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region of Ukraine covers black smoke. Locals run up with buckets to the blazing fragments of a huge aircraft, which literally fell from the sky. Women cry. Everywhere - pieces of steaming iron. And among them, dark blue armchairs and things of people are striking. From torn tourist backpacks, folded clothes, papers, blankets, and documents are knocked out carefully before the trip. And nearby - the bodies of people. Some seem to be not damaged at all, only the shoes are torn from a small leg, and somewhere there are completely charred bones and rare pieces of burgundy mass. Next to people is a dark green parrot with eyes closed. Calls of mobile phones are sometimes heard above the field ... The wreckage of the blown up Boeing formed an oval of about 5 by 10 km in size, then some of them will be found and 50 km from here ...
“The bird fell by the terricon, the residential sector did not hook. Peaceful people were not injured "
The “Earth-Athos” missile exploded at a distance of 2 to 5 m to the left of the Boeing pilots. This happened at 17:20.
At 17:50, in popular “Russian world” “reports from Strelkov Igor Ivanovich”, an entry, equipped with a video clinic: “In the Torez area, the An-26 aircraft just knocked down somewhere behind the Progress mine (this is just near Grabovo.-NT). They warned - not to fly in "Our sky." And here is the video - confirmation of the next "poultry farm". The bird fell by the Terricon, the residential sector did not hook. Peaceful people were not injured. And also there is also information about the second shot down aircraft, it seems to be Su. ”
But two hours will not pass, as this “summary” will disappear, remaining in memory only as the first evidence - among the dozens of subsequent ones.
After the ribbons of world agencies with a continuous jamb will be reported about the passenger liner shot down in the sky over the Donbass, the leading Lifenews television channel will simplely notice that it was most likely, Donetsk militias. Then the channel will forever abandon this version, but the word is not a sparrow ...
Meanwhile, unshaven men in camouflage appear on the field under Grabovo, they roam for a long time among the wreckage, someone twirls in their hand someone's video camera, someone-a children's plush toy ... They will guess to shoot each other on the video-then this video with their remarks, in which genuine surprise breaks, will bypass the whole world. At the same time, when an international investigation begins, it will be found that part of the material evidence has disappeared ...
From the decoding of negotiations between the Donbass separatists:
July 18, 2014, 08:00
"B": Good morning ...!
"A": Good ... Well, yesterday ... I have no words.
"B": sho (what)?
"A": Well, where is this one? Che he ... yesterday, your comrade, this one ... he returned ... some kind of incomprehensible movements. Sho (what) yesterday? Tell.
“B”: They brought the car to the intersection, left. The boys went further themselves.
"A": So.
“B”: That's it, the car went to where it was necessary. And I came normally, that's it.
"A": I understand.
“B”: incomprehensible calls simply began there, from ten (10) people.
"A": from which ten (10)?
“B”: Well, different people began to call his number, sho (what). One, then the second, then the third, then the fourth. That says, I already ... Then he says, myself ... began to call.
"A": Well?
"B": introduced himself.
"A": And he took and turned off the phone ... and we do not know where the car is, in general ...
"B": a car in Russia.
The date and time of the conversation is July 18, 2014, 08:00. A man named “A” speaks in a muffled voice, he is clearly preoccupied and annoyed. The whole world is already anger. Soon, on June 22, a thousand kilometers from here, in the Kremlin, a night meeting of the Security Council takes place. Vladimir Putin already managed to make a call to Prime Minister Malaysia, where the plane flew from Amsterdam. Putin immediately laid the responsibility for the tragedy to Ukraine - this is in her sky, in her air corridor everything happened. By the way, then this argument will be the only one that the Dutch Safety Board Council will take into account, conducting a parallel investigation about the technical circumstances of the disaster: Ukraine was supposed to close the combat operations for flights, and Malaysia Airlines - change the route.
"Beauty" with the crew
To understand what, in fact, happened in the past day, another conversation intercepted on July 17, at 09:08, almost 9 hours before the tragedy:
“A”: Yes, I listen to the “Buryatik”.
"B": Hello ...!
"A": Yes.
"B": And where do we unload this beauty ...?
"A": Which is this?
“B”: Yes, yes, sho (what) I brought. I'm already in Donetsk.
"A": This is what I think, yes? "M" which?
"B": Yes.
"A": "PM"?
"B": Yes, yes, yes. BEECH.
“A”: Oh, “BM”. Yes, yes, yes.
"B": Buk.
"A": I understand.
"B": beech, beech.
"A": So, so, so. Is she on this, on the tractor?
"B": Ah, yes! She is in this. She just needs to be unloaded to hide.
"A": Is she with the crew?
"B": Yes, with the crew.
“A”: No need to hide her anywhere, she will go there now. You understand where?
"B": I understand. Well, they need at least time to examine it.
A request for a “beauty with a crew” left the “separatists” (Jit in his report means them in this way, in quotation marks, explaining that this term “means all persons, regardless of their civil affiliation, fighting in the east of Ukraine against Ukrainian government troops.” –NT) July 16, immediately after publishing the reporting of the journalistic journalistic The Bellingcat investigative group, whose conclusions about the weapon that hit Boeing and the place of its launch were almost completely confirmed by JIT, Eliot Higgins.
Why did they need the Buk air defense system, and even with the crew? War is fear. And fear has great eyes. The separatists in those days sought to provide the corridor to the border with Russia, in the south of the conflict zone, and during offensive actions needed more effective protection against air attacks. They discussed the lack of this kind of weapons openly. As well, however, as the fact that in July they managed to recapture several “bees” from the Armed Forces (there was even a plot in the Russian “Vesti” about this). But how to use them - they might not know.
It was erroneous or intentional to get into the passenger liner - the investigation also has to be found out. But a mistake could at least be recognized in time ...
To transport the air defense systems, the separatists, as it is not without Naiva, is specified in the video posted by the JIT on the website of the Dutch prosecutor’s office, “anticipally seized” at one of the enterprises of Donetsk in a white volvo tractor (the initiates know: in the Donbass for people in the camouflage, confiscate a separate vehicle-just to spit), which made the path along the route: Donetsk-Donetsk- Makeevka - Zugres - Torez - Snow. The fatal salvo was given 7 km south of Snezhny, in the field near Pervomaisky: on July 16, this section of the field, as shown in satellite pictures, is virgin green, the 17th-there is cloud cover, and already in the picture from the 18th a dark rectangle is visible-a trace of launching a rocket. Return route of the tractor: snowy - red beam - Debaltsevo - Lugansk - Krasnodon. Further - "Machine in Russia" ...
On the way, however, judging by the negotiations, they forgot on the site of one of the crew of the air defense system, but it was impossible to leave it - the witness.
July 7, 2014, 21:32
"B": I understand. Are you in that area or not?
"A": No, I'm not in that area. I'm the other way.
"B": Somewhere a fighter was lost from this ... From this installation, his crew ... ...
"A": What installation?
"B": Well, from Buka.
"A": From Buk?
"A": And where is he ...?
"B": Here, there is a checkpoint.
“A”: Take him here ... Take it, I will wait for him in the snowy, near the gas station.
"B": Good.
Side result
Who could give an order to cross the border of the air defense system, who organized and ensured the operation? In the audio files published by JIT, some Andrei Ivanovich (the call sign “Orion”) and Fedor Nikolaevich (call sign “Dolphin”) appear. Characters with such call sign appeared earlier in other investigations. People, apparently, are serving. Here Andrei Ivanovich recalls Fedor Nikolaevich: “Remember, in the combat charter, how is it written? The control point ... The movement of control points should not occur at the moment decisive ... at decisive moments of the battle. ” It is written in the charter of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. But what about that? Names and titles have not yet been made public - Jit will try to confirm everything at the next stage of the investigation. In the meantime, it remains only to make assumptions - already on the fields of the report of international experts.
Most likely, the Boeing tragedy has become a side result of military planning. For separatists, weapons could, according to official legend, appear only in the form of trophies captured in local police departments or from the Ukrainian army. Therefore, by definition, they could not have aviation. And those who prepared the “explosion of popular indignation” in the Donbass were concerned about providing air defense systems. It is no coincidence that during the first clashes in Slavyansk several Ukrainian helicopters were immediately shot down. From the very beginning, the separatists were armed with portable anti -aircraft complexes, which could hardly be captured in the police department. But even in July 2014, the curators of the operation continued to worry about the fact that the ATO forces will sooner or later take advantage of their dominance in the air.
There is a version: the installation of the Air Defense Buk M-1 belongs to the 53rd Air Defense Brigade, which is part of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army. If the version is correct, it is obvious that the entire operation was planned at a level no lower than the army headquarters
There is a version: the installation of the Air Defense Buk M-1 belongs to the 53rd Air Defense Brigade, which is part of the 20th Guards Combined Army. If the version is correct, it is obvious that the entire operation was planned at a level not lower than the army headquarters. Only from there could an order to move the installation abroad with Ukraine. If, of course, it is not to admit that the military brigades who intended to fight for Novorossia during the next “vacation” did not take the usual weapons with them-Buk M-1. However, in this case, the brigade commander would have to immediately raise the alarm. The most stupid thing that can be imagined is an attempt to hide the 30-ton installation of air defense, capable of developing speed not higher than 60 km per hour ...
We do not hand over our own, we are standing on our own?
In the work of JIT, from 100 to 200 investigators, prosecutors and experts, thousands of fragments and debris were carefully investigated for 2 years, 1148 of them were entered into the database as material evidence, more than 200 witnesses were interviewed, listened and analyzed for 150 thousand recorded telephone conversations, half a million video shifts are carefully investigated, 5 billion is studied, 5 billion (!) The pages of the Internet, more than 20 countries were sent 60 legal assistance requests ... Two 9M38 modifications-missiles from the Buk air defense system were thoroughly studied-the type of shrapnel was studied, the traces of which remained on the sheathing of the liner ... But on Russian official representatives (from Major General Igor Konashenkova (Ministry of Defense) to Maria Zakharova (Foreign Ministry) and Leonida) Slutsky (State Duma) This work did not impress: the JIT report is biased, politicized (the report is in the public domain, it’s hard to find a hint of politics in it) and in general - it is based on the data received from the Internet and from the Ukrainian special services. (JIT experts, however, came to the conclusion that July 17, 2014 and this village was under the control of separatists).
However, some changes in positions are still visible. Before the JIT press conference in the Netherlands, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov confidently announced the “irrefutable” non-involvement of the DPR to the Boeing tragedy. After, in an interview with the BBC, the tonality of his statements was already different-he emphasized in every possible way that the conclusions of the investigation were not yet final, that the work continues. Major General Konashenkov also considered it necessary to declare the readiness of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to continue to work with an international investigation. Notes with a hint that the Kremlin fluctuates in the choice of further behavior, according to the informed sources of NT in Berlin, also sounded in Putin’s conversation with Angel Merkel on September 29. Officially, they discussed the situation in Ukraine, however, knowledgeable people claim that the Chancellor was primarily interested in Putin's opinion on the JIT investigation.
The Russian line of behavior in the situation with the “beech” - we deny everything, we do not hand over our own - it is based on strong historical foundations. On October 25, 1962, in the midst of the Caribbean crisis, the US Permanent Representative to the UN, Edly Stevenson, directly turned to the meetings to the Soviet Permanent Representative to Valerian Zorin: “Do you deny Mr. Zorin the fact that the USSR placed or placed medium -range missiles in Cuba. Yes or not? Do not wait for the translation - yes or no? " - “At one time you will receive an answer! “The Soviet Permanent Representative retorted with a grin,” continue your speech. ” “... I'm ready to wait until the underworld freezes, if you want.”
More than 50 years ago, Nikita Khrushchev forced his diplomats to lie and dodge, although the Americans already had satellite pictures of Soviet ships with missiles that sailed to the shores of Cuba. Since then, the intelligence capabilities of mankind have gone far ahead, and not only professionals use them with might and main. High quality satellite images have not only the United States, but, for example, the European Space Agency (EKA), which provided them with JIT. Add here the data of short-wave interception, the diaper of mobile networks, computer modeling, finally, amateur video and high-resolution photography- and all this in total gives myriad of evidence. But you continue to repeat: no, we don’t know anything, it’s not us, these are enemies. No “beech” crossed the border.
Difficulties in the situation
Meanwhile, relatives of the victims of the tragedy MN17 are also ready to wait for a long time - if only justice enthusiastically enthusiastically. “Even if it takes us 10 years to find out the truth, we will be satisfied,” said Gollande Robbie Elers, who had a 20-year-old niece and her 23-year-old friend in the British newspaper Telegraph.
"Even if we have 10 years to find out the truth, we will be satisfied"
Concluding the press conference, on September 28, the Prosecutor General of the Netherlands Fred Westerbek said that the investigation would last until 2018. Since at the current stage of the investigation there is no list of suspects yet, therefore, the court that will conduct a trial is not determined. The prosecutor Westerbeke claims that those who were related to the movement and maintenance of the “beech” are about a hundred people. It is logical to assume that at the next stage of the investigation, requests for issuing or at least for interrogations of people from this list will follow. And this will put Russia in an extremely unpleasant situation. Of course, Moscow should not say anything that, firstly, there are no such people at all, and if they exist, they cannot appear before foreign investigators in order to preserve the secrets of the organization of Russian air defense, which, as well as it is clear, intend to reveal the insidious foreigners. However, this also means an actual refusal to cooperate with JIT. What in this case will look like an actual guilty admission. If Moscow dares to give suspects to international investigators, then in this case the world can learn a lot about the “hybrid war” in the Donbass.
One way or another, an unhurried investigation of the death of the Malaysian Boeing inexorably leads to the international isolation of Russia, the inevitable transformation of its rogue country, and it is quite likely to the resonant trial.
There is true, as the classic said, and God's judgment. And there is still a chance to border before him. Here, for example, said in an interview with the British television channel Sky News Barry Suini, whose son Liam flew by the MN17 flight to the New Zealand for the Manchester United match: “I just want someone to go out and frankly said:“ You know, I understand that the apology is not the best answer to what happened, but ... ”
Ask for forgiveness, and you will be forgiven ...
Irina Demchenko (London), Vladimir Bramitsky participated in the preparation of the material