One of the rebel leaders admits that the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk faction had a Buk missile system from Russia and suggests it was sent back to Russia after the plane crash to hide it.
He then goes on to say that Ukrainian forces knew they had it and purposely flew missions in the area to antagonize the rebels to use it in a dangerous fashion around civilian aircrafts.
Seriously, these guys are complete cretins. There is no end to their conspiracy theories.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/malaysi...stem-1.2716368
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In an interview with Reuters, Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok Battalion, acknowledged for the first time since the airliner was brought down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday that the rebels did possess the Buk missile system and said it could have been sent back subsequently to remove proof of its presence.
Before the Malaysian plane was shot down, rebels had boasted of obtaining the Buk missiles, which can shoot down airliners at cruising height. But since the disaster the separatists' main group, the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, has repeatedly denied ever having possessed such weapons.
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Khodakovsky accused the Kyiv authorities for provoking what may have been the missile strike that destroyed the doomed airliner, saying Kyiv had deliberately launched air strikes in the area, knowing the missiles were in place.
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"And that day, they were intensively flying, and exactly at the moment of the shooting, at the moment the civilian plane flew overhead, they launched air strikes. Even if there was a Buk, and even if the Buk was used, Ukraine did everything to ensure that a civilian aircraft was shot down."
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