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Originally Posted by starseed
Absolutely heartbreaking.
If those reporters have confirmed the rebels in the area had control over that system, I think priority one should be to retrieve it and see if it can be traced back to the Russian government. The deaths of these people cannot be overlooked by the international community. Pressure should then be placed on the Russians to end their support for the insurgents and start cleaning up the mess they made.
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No matter what happens it traces back to the Russians, they manufacture the various missiles and the vehicles themselves. I know that the Chinese manufacture their own version and the Iranians have a knockoff as well.
What's difficult to prove is were the missiles and vehicles sold or "loaned" to the separatists or stolen from the Ukraine military or from a Russian warehouse.
Right now the conspiracy theorist in me is probably thinking that Russia is going to manufacture a stolen weapons report from some Western Russian arms warehouse and some poor gomer in their military is going to be charged with corruption.