Can JJ please call in a prank
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'We warned you not to fly in our sky': Boasts of Russian separatist as evidence emerges of Putin's forces launching missiles into Ukraine days before MH17 disaster- Rebel commander tweeted about downing Ukrainian military plane
- He said: 'We warned you - do not fly in our sky'
- Chilling statement just before airliner downed over Ukraine-Russia border
- As details about the Malaysia Airlines flight emerged, the tweet was deleted
Rebel commander Igor Strelkov - widely believed in Kiev to be a serving Russian military intelligence officer - tweeted a boastful message about shooting down a military plane shortly before Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was downed.
The tweet indicated his rebels had shot down an Antonov-26 military plane of the Ukrainian Air Force. The Antonov is a large transport plane of a type used by Ukraine's forces.
The message read: 'In the area Torez we just hit down An-26, it's lying somewhere in the mine "Progress".
'We warned you- do not fly in "our sky". And here is the video confirmation of the "bird dropping".
'Bird fell fell near the mine, the residential sector was not disturbed. Civilians are not injured.'
Later as the horror became clear, the tweet was deleted. Separatist forces have blown at least three Ukrainian military planes out of the sky in the past 48 hours.
Today, militia from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) brought down a military transport Antonov-26 (An-26) plane of the Ukrainian Air Force on the outskirts of the town of Torez, eyewitnesses said.
A missile hit the An-26, it fell on the ground and caught blaze, they said.
Earlier, pro-Russia rebels claimed responsibility for surface-to-air missile strikes on two Ukrainian Sukhoi-25 jets yesterday.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said the second jet was hit by a portable surface-to-air missile adding that the pilot was unscathed and managed to land his plane safely.
The news comes as footage that some claim proves Russia has launched military attacks on Ukraine from its own territory emerged today.
The images allegedly show an attack by a truck-mounted 'Grad' 122 mm multiple rocket launcher from close to Gukovo in Russia's Rostov region across the frontier into neighbouring Ukraine.
Kiev has been making increasingly strong complaints that Moscow is mounting attacks from its own territory as well as supporting insurgents with weapons and reinforcements.
Moscow has denied such accusations.
The head of organization 'Civil Initiative' Dmitry Snegirev claimed today that this footage - from late on 16 July - shows strikes from Gukovo onto Krasnodonsk district in the Lugansk region of Ukraine.
He claimed locals had provided the information about the 'Grad' strikes.
Ukrainian journalist Roman Bochkala wrote on Facebook: 'Here is direct evidence of shelling of Ukraine with "Grad" from the territory of the Russian Federation. Two units are firing in the village Gukovo, Rostov region.'
Claiming it was not the first such strike, he posted a map showing where the alleged attack originated.
One horrific account of the crash said bodies had fallen out of the stricken plane over the village of Rassypnaya.
More than a dozen corpses of people who appeared to be of Asian descent, some naked, were strewn around the village, said Aleks Noit, who has relatives living nearby.
'Wreckage and bodies fell on the private houses in the village and near the hospital. People in uniform collected the corpses.'
Among the possessions were passports of the victims, which were quickly copied onto the social media.
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BREAKING: Ukrainian security chief accuses two Russian intelligence officers of involvement in crash based on phone intercepts for proof
BREAKING: U.S. aviation authorities say American air carriers have voluntarily agreed to avoid airspace near Russia-Ukraine border
BREAKING: Eurocontrol says Eastern Ukraine airspace closedComment -
This happened before in Ukraine about 13 years ago:
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashed over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, en route from Tel Aviv, Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia. The plane, a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154, carried an estimated 66 passengers and 12 crew members. Most of the passengers were Israelis visiting relatives in Russia. No one on board survived. The crash site is some 190 km west-southwest of the Black Sea resort of Sochi and 140 km north of the Turkishcoastal town of Fatsa and 350 km east-southeast of Feodosiya, Ukraine. Ukraine admitted that the disaster was probably caused by an errant missile fired by its armed forces.[1]4 October 2001 Shot down by a missile Black Sea 66 12 78 (all) Tupolev Tu-154M Siberia Airlines RA-85693 Ben Gurion Int'l Airport
Tel Aviv, IsraelNovosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport
Novosibirsk, Russia
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Ah it makes sense why that Google translation I did was referring to "beech". I was like how the f am I supposed to understand this?!
From ABCNewsAU:
Reports have suggested pro-Russian separatists shot down the jet with a Buk surface-to-air missile.
The Buk - which means beech tree in Russia - is a 1970s vintage, truck-mounted, radar-guided missile system, codenamed SA-11 Gadfly by Cold War NATO adversaries.
It fires a 5.7-metre, 55kg missile up to 28 kilometres
Armed separatists were hindering search efforts at the crash site, the head of Ukraine's emergency services said.
"The search work is difficult because we are talking about a big radius ... but also because armed terrorists who are on the spot are hampering things," Serhiy Bochkovsky told journalists
Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko has called for an international investigation into the air disaster.
"I just concluded a conversation with the prime minister of the Netherlands. I offered our condolences and on behalf of Ukraine invited Dutch experts to take part in an open investigation into this act of terrorism.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that we are not calling it an accident, but an act of terrorism."
BREAKING: In a statement, Eurocontrol - the European organisation for the safety of air navigation - says MH17 was flying in open airspace, but about 1,000 feet above a closed section of airspace.
According to our information, the aircraft was flying at Flight Level 330 (approximately 10,000 metres/33,000 feet) when it disappeared from the radar.
This route had been closed by the Ukrainian authorities from ground to flight level 320 but was open at the level at which the aircraft was flying.
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It looks like everyone is now blaming each other.Comment -
Its not. Dont you think rebels have binoculars or even more powerful sights? I mean, you can identify planes with cheap consumer binocs... its really not that ridiculous...Comment -
Yusuf @YusufDFI Picture of the Buk SAM flaunted by seperatists before it was hurriedly taken off.Not b4 a screenshot was taken
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Considering she's a failed congressional candidate who goes on to mock Romney for losing his race all the time, followed by Al Sharpton's show where he can barely read a coherent sentence....I'd say the prank caller is probably the most credible person on the network
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The MSNBC anchor who got owned....her name is actually Krystal Ball....how did that name not see that coming?
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For anyone who wants to reasonably know how easy it is to id flying aircraft.Comment -
Distance makes it EASIER to track moving through a field of view! Science is amazing!Comment -
Nationalities confirmed so far with 47 yet unknown
dutch : 154 dead
Australians: 27 dead
Indonesian: 11 dead
Malaysian: 23 dead
Americans: 6 dead
Germans : 4 dead
Filipinos : 3 dead
Canadian : 1 dead
French: 4 dead
RIP. People going on or coming home from holidays and look wtf happens. Sickening.Comment -
pavy just stop it. you think they blindly shoot down planes just for fun? they exactly knew what they were shooting down.Comment -
BREAKING: Malaysian PM Najib says downed aircraft did not make a distress call
BREAKING: Putin says airplane disaster would not have happened if Kiev had not renewed military operation against rebels in east Ukraine
BREAKING: Russia's Putin says Kiev bears responsibility for crash of passenger plane because it was brought down in Ukraine: RIA
A woman holding a sign that reads, "Putin is a murderer", lies down near flowers left by people to commemorate victims of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash, at the Dutch embassy in Kiev. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
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You can buy these at $7,000 a piece. That will do it!Comment -
I think in this case they did blindly shoot down a plane. Look at all the others that were in the area but had the luxury of turning back after this one went down. If they had wanted to shoot down this plane why are they scrubbing their social media accounts and not claiming it? They've happily claimed everything else they've done. They fukked up by hitting a commercial airliner. I struggle to see why they'd target one specifically over another. Especially one filled with Euros, Aussies and North Americans. That's not going to help anyone out no matter what side they're on.Comment
