Bellingcat clarified the role of Dubinsky in the crash of MH-17

The Bellingcat investigators team, together with Conflict Intelligence Team, has prepared a new report on the MH-17 flight in the Donbass. The material is at the disposal of Republic.

The new report is dedicated to the role of a retired Russian officer Sergei Dubinsky, known as gloomy. Bellingcat analyzed five gloomy calls published by the Ukrainian Security Service and the International Investigative Group.

We are talking about the conversations of Dubinsky on July 17, 2014 - the day when the passenger Boeing was shot down. A fighter with a call sign is the Buryatik is interested in Dubinsky, where to load the Buk-M1 missile system. He explains that the second car was not found for transporting the Buka, as a result, it was removed from the trawl, and it crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border with its own stroke, after which it was loaded into another trawl and took it to Donetsk. According to Dubinsky, Buk must go to the destination with the tanks of the Vostok battalion.

Further, the gloomy talks with the fighter Sanych (the SBU introduced him as a deputy Dubinsky). He asked where to fit the “beech” in order to put in a column. At the same time, the gloomy calls the installation "mine".

The next negotiations of Dubinsky were with a librarian fighter, they were dedicated to the escort of Buka to Snezhny and his guards. Dubinsky clarifies that the installation should be taken to the village of Pervomaisk, from where the rocket was launched.

The last conversation of frowning (after the crash of the MH-17) was with the fighter Botsman. He said that in the morning he received Buk, after which he managed to knock down the Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft. According to Bellingcat, on that day the only shot was Boeing. (In the message “Summers from Strelkov Igor Ivanovich”, published in the evening of July 17 and later remote, it was said that the DPR fighters shot down the Ukrainian An-26, “and there is also information about the second shot down, it seems to be“ SU ”).

The gloomy is also mentioned in the negotiations of the former commander of the Vostok battalion Alexander Khodakovsky of July 18 on the extraction of key objects from the crash site of the MH-17. According to Khodakovsky, Dubinsky has “two units” (probably “black boxes”). It was also noted that the “Moscow” was interested in the fellow of the boxes of the DPR fighters. Initially, the DPR wanted to give the recorders to Russia, however, after the public refusal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sergei Lavrov, they were transferred to the international investigative group.

In February 2017, Bellingcat published an investigation in which she revealed the identity of Dubinsky. It was clarified that this is a retired Russian officer now living in the Rostov region. Dubinsky himself noted that he did not shoot at the plane and did not give the command to shoot down Boeing. He did not clarify whether it was related to the transportation of a “beech” to Donbass. The Bellingcat investigation provides photos of frowning with actors Ivan Okhlobystin and Mikhail Porechenkov. Later Okhlobystin wrote a column in which he did not deny his acquaintance with Dubinsky, but doubted the involvement of a gloomy in the crash of Boeing.