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Originally Posted by MarchHare
How can you be so certain that it was not the Ukrainian military accidentally shooting down an airliner? They did exactly that back in 2001.
How can you be so certain that this particular BUK system wasn't Ukrainian-owned and manned by pro-Russia defectors from Ukrainian military now working with the rebels?
The answer to both questions is that you don't know and therefore it's impossible to blame this on Russia (either directly or indirectly) until we have more information.
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Of course I cannot, but I can all but guarantee intelligence does know. The US, UK, Ukraine and other allies will have intelligence on the ground, they will have satellites pinned to those locations trying to build the west's case against Russia and the rebels. This is simply a system that you just don't pick up and run with, you need a lot of training to be able to use it. The intelligence probably saw it crossing the border into eastern Ukraine.