Russia Says Has Photos Of Ukraine Deploying BUK Missiles In East, Radar Proof Of Warplanes In MH17 Vicinity | Zero Hedge

Russia Says Has Photos Of Ukraine Deploying BUK Missiles In East, Radar Proof Of Warplanes In MH17 Vicinity | Zero Hedge





Russia Says Has Photos Of Ukraine Deploying BUK Missiles In East, Radar Proof Of Warplanes In MH17 Vicinity



Ukraine hasn’t said how it immediately knew rebels downed Malaysian
plane, notes the Russian Foreign Ministry, as it unveils 10 awkward
questions for Ukraine (and perhaps the US 'snap judgment') to answer
about the MH17 disaster. However, what is perhaps more concerning for
the hordes of finger-pointers is that:

- RUSSIA HAS IMAGES OF UKRAINE DEPLOYING BUK ROCKETS IN EAST: IFX

- RUSSIA: UKRAINE MOVED BUK NEAR REBELS IN DONETSK JULY 17: IFX

- RUSSIA DETECTED UKRAINIAN FIGHTER JET PICK UP SPEED TOWARD MH17


Obviously, if there is proof that this is so, aside from CIA-created
YouTube clips, these would deal another unpleasant blow to US foreign
policy.


Russia wants to know why Ukraine moved its BUK missiles systems the day of the MH17 crash:


RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF HAS SPACE IMAGES OF SECTORS OF UKRAINIAN FORCES'
POSITIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN UKRAINE, INCLUDING BUK MISSILE LUNCH SITES 8
KILOMETERS FROM LUHANSK - RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY


The day
the Malaysian airliner crashed, the Ukrainian forces deployed an air
defense group of three or four Buk-M1 missile batteries near Donetsk,
Lt. Gen. Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Russian General Staff's Main
Operations Department, told reporters on Monday.


"These
surface-to-air systems are capable of hitting targets at a distance of
up to 35 kilometers at an altitude of 22 kilometers. For what purpose
and against whom were these missile systems deployed? As is known, the
militia has no aviation," he said.

Russia has the flight paths of the Ukrainian fighters and MH17.

Furthermore, it is asking the same question we asked last Thurday:
RUSSIA SAYS MH17 DIVERGED 14 KM FROM FLIGHT PATH NEAR DONETSK




“A Ukraine Air Force military jet was detected gaining height, it’s
distance from the Malaysian Boeing was 3 to 5km,” said the head of the
Main Operations Directorate of the HQ of Russia’s military forces,
Lieutenant-General Andrey Kartopolov speaking at a media conference in
Moscow on Monday.



“[We] would like to get an
explanation as to why the military jet was flying along a civil
aviation corridor at almost the same time and at the same level as a
passenger plane,” he stated.



“The SU-25
fighter jet can gain an altitude of 10km, according to its
specification,” he added. “It’s equipped with air-to-air R-60 missiles
that can hit a target at a distance up to 12km, up to 5km for sure.”




The presence of the Ukrainian military jet can be confirmed by video
shots made by the Rostov monitoring center, Kartopolov stated.

And asks for US proof of their accusations:


- RUSSIA SAYS U.S. SATELLITE FLEW OVER MH17 AT TIME IT WAS DOWNED...
which would provide all the proof needed to show who is responsible -
so why hasn't the US explained this or shown it?
- RUSSIA ASKS U.S. FOR EVIDENCE ROCKET FIRED FROM REBEL-HELD AREA
- RUSSIA: NO U.S. PROOF THAT MISSILE FIRED FROM REBEL-HELD AREA

- DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS RUSSIA DID NOT DELIVER ANY SA-11 BUK MISSILE
SYSTEMS TO SEPARATISTS IN EASTERN UKRAINE "OR ANY OTHER WEAPONS"

And went on to rebuke all the Twitter photos created by Maidan to 'prove' the BUKs were moving in Russian hands.


Additionally, as Russia noted using what appears to be legitimate
photographic evidence (something the west has so far failed to provide
in any capacity) MH17 crashed within the operating zone of the Ukrainian
army’s self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air ‘Buk’ missile
systems, the Russian general said.

“We have space images of
certain places where the Ukraine’s air defense was located in the
southeast of the country,” Kartapolov noted.

The first three
shots that were shown by the general are dated July 14. The images show
Buk missile launch systems in about 8km northwest of the city of Lugansk
– a TELAR and two TELs, according to the military official.



The question that has to be answered is why the missile system appeared
in the area controlled by the local militia forces shortly before the
catastrophe, he stated.

* * *

Summing it all up, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has 10 questions for Ukraine (google translated)


The global public expects a speedy and independent investigation into
the causes of the disaster Malaysian aircraft in the airspace of
Ukraine.

In order to conduct an objective investigation of
possible leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
has ased ten questions to the Ukrainian side.

1. Ukrainian
authorities immediately identified the militia as the perpetrators of
the tragedy. What is the basis of such findings?




2. Could official Kiev to report all the details of using [BUKs] in
a war zone? Most importantly - why these systems are deployed there, as
the militia no planes?



3. What are the
causes of inactivity of Ukrainian authorities on the formation of an
international commission? When such a committee will work?




4. Are the armed forces of Ukraine international experts to present
papers on accounting for missiles, air-to-air and ground-to-air ammo
and anti-aircraft missiles?



5. Whether these
funds objective control on the movement of the Ukrainian Air Force
aircraft on the day of the tragedy brought international commission?




6. Why Ukrainian air traffic controllers allowed deviation of the
route of the aircraft to the north side of the "anti-terrorist operation
zone"?



7. Why was not completely closed to
civilian aircraft airspace over the combat zone, especially because in
this area there was no solid field of radar navigation?




8. Could official Kiev to comment on reports in the net, ostensibly
on behalf of the Spanish air traffic controllers working in Ukraine,
which shot down over the territory of Ukraine "Boeing" was accompanied
by two Ukrainian military aircraft?



9. Why
Security Service of Ukraine has begun without international
representatives work with recordings of talks with Ukrainian crew
dispatchers "Boeing" and Ukrainian radar data?




10. How were the lessons from previous similar disasters Russian
Tu-154 in 2001 in the Black Sea? Then the leaders of Ukraine until the
last minute denied any involvement of the Armed Forces of the country to
the tragedy until irrefutable evidence showed no guilt official Kiev.


Unfortunately, there has been no response by the Ukraine side to these
questions so far. We expect that there will be some answers.

* * *


Needless to say, this places Ukraine and The US (as main protagonist of
"finger pointer") in an awkward position as finally someone, somewhere
will have to present some actual facts instead of merely continuing the
"emotional appeals" propaganda.

We expect many of these
questions to be answered once the contents of flight MH17's black box
are revealed and/or when Ukraine finally releases an undoctored version
of the Air Traffic control recording with the doomed flight.