The tragedy of MH17: how Bellingcat boat crashed on the facts

Counter-investigation of Russian bloggers exposed the fraud of Western journalists.

Bloggers are enthusiasts who call themselves as a group of Anti Bellingcat has published another batch of facts about the causes of the Malaysian Boeing 777 flight MH17 shot down in the South-East of Ukraine on July 17, 2014.

As the group is Bellingcat, a British journalist Eliot Higgins, in his counter-investigation, the activists relied on data from public sources, found a number of key inconsistencies that contradict the version of “cats” that the Russian armed forces and representatives of the breakaway Donetsk national Republic was involved in this tragedy. The full report can be found here the package.

The missing figure

 

In its report “the Mystery of the lost numbers” Bellingcat specialists compared photos of SOU Buk made in Russia during the March, the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade with photos presented by the French tabloid “Paris Match” and allegedly taken in the Donetsk region. The group Higgins argued that the photographs depicted one and the same sow with the illegible second digit side number installation. It was dubbed: “Buk 3×2”.

Looking for similarities in the two plants, independent researchers have done detailed analysis of the distinguishing features of the SDA, but missed one very important detail, the presence of which causes considerable doubt that the photographs of one and the same “Buk”.

The complex air defense system underwent several modifications without significant changes in the shape, but experts know that machines produced after 1984 have the same structural feature, namely a hinged platform designed for easy access based on the case of SOU.

In the Bellingcat report has a picture of the JMA made in the area of Alekseyevka in Belgorod region. In this photo is clearly visible the same platform in the tilted position, while in the Ukrainian pictures this characteristic detail is not clear, either in folded or unfolded positions.

Oily residue

 

Proving that the plane was shot down self-propelled fire installation (SDA) “Beech” from the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade, located in the Kursk region, the Higgins group operated by the fact that the SDA can be identified by the shape of the oil spots formed due to the emission when the engine is started after a long break in its operation.

Image characteristic oil stains on satellite images of “cats” was cited as evidence that Russian “Buk” was in the area of Snow that day. But more or less familiar with the work of the engine man realizes that his work is influenced by many factors: from the amount of oil in the system, and ending with its temperature. An unbiased investigation could simply not ignore this fact.

Whether there was at Ukraine “Buki” in the area ATO

 

Immediately after the terrible news of the destruction of flight MH 17, the Ukrainian leadership began to argue that the impact area was not air defense of the armed forces. The basic argument of Kyiv referred to the fact that militias have no aircraft, they say, and in defense installations no need. But operational construction of the forces of anti-terrorist operation the Ukrainian command provided for the existence of such combat units.

For example, the transfer of the Ukrainian TV channel “24” dated 14 July 2014 is clearly seen as the tractor transports the SDA 9A310M1 “Buk-M1” with the number 321, which was previously seen in the area of Kramatorsk.

 

16 Jul 2014 in the program “Hour H” No. 129 (evening edition) was the plot of the air defense of Ukraine in the area of ATO, which is clearly visible propelled fire installation Buk ” and radar 19Ж6 (35Д6). Russian intelligence noted the radar “Dome” on the day of the MH17 tragedy.

The day before the crash in the news “Military TV of Ukraine” showed a story about the situation in the ATO zone, where the shot hit SOU Beech”.

The rocket launch site

 

In his investigation of activists groups Anti Bellingcat note that accurate information about the deployment of Ukrainian troops and militia units in the period from 15 to 18 July 2014 not available as this time was characterized by total chaos and panic in the ranks of the APU.

Despite this, the Higgins group uses controversial sources and claims that the district South of zaroshchens’ke, where according to calculations of Russian experts the rocket was fired the Buk missile system on July 17, 2014, was not under the control of the Ukrainian military and there was not “books”.

Of particular interest is the map of the commander of the first battalion of the 95th airmobile brigade APU, dated early July 2014, which was discovered by the militia DND. This map was marked with the SAM “Buk” near zaroshchens’ke. The representative of the DND Eduard Bacurin stated willingness to provide this map of the investigation team leading the investigation into the death of flight MH17, but this proposal was ignored.

Boeing 777 Malaysia Airlines crashed in the South-East of Ukraine near the settlement of Grabovo July 17, 2014. The cause of the crash was explosive decompression as a result of the explosion of the rocket “earth-air” Buk”. On Board were 283 passengers and 15 crew members. No survivors.

 

 

Author: Roman Lykov