Russian Expert Claims that Ukrainians could not have Shot Down Malaysian Airliner

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Russian expert Mark Solonin calls an anonymous report by experts on the Malaysian Airlines disaster in Donbass a “deliberate falsification”.

On May 13, Novaya Gazeta published Solonin’s commentary titled “Let’s Compare Trajectories.”

According to Solonin, who is an aircraft design engineer, the statements by anonymous experts about the launching point of the anti-aircraft missile system “Buk M-1” are false. Based on an analysis of the damaged aircraft, Solonin concludes that the missile launch point is located in the city of Snizhne, which was controlled at the time by the pro-Russian separatists.

Solonin also claims that, according to the hostilities map issued by ATO headquarters two days before 17 July 2014, militants controlled the area around the village of Zaroshchenske as well, which is the missile launch point named in the report from Russian experts.

The same conclusion was reached at the beginning of January 2015 by a group of journalists from the Netherlands and Germany working in connection with the project CORRECT! V. The journalists do not agree with the Russian version of events that the aircraft could have been shot down by a Ukrainian “Buck” crew located in the Zaroshchenske area. Reporters interviewed local residents, including supporters of the separatists. None of the respondents had noticed Ukrainian military or equipment in the village or on its outskirts on the day when the plane was shot down.

The Malaysian Airlines passenger plane was shot down in the skies over Donbass on July 17, 2014. 298 passengers and crew members were victims of the attack. On May 6, 2015, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published a strictly confidential document entitled “The results of the expert assessment of the investigation into the crash of the Boeing-777 (flight MH17) on July 17, 2014, in the south-east of Ukraine.” Experts working on the report claimed that the airliner was probably shot down by a “Buk-M1” anti-aircraft missile system. The journalists said that they are not specialists in this area, so they invite other experts to comment on the published report and publicize their own investigation on the pages of their publication.