DISINFO: MH-17 tragedy was a special operation executed by Ukraine and...

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DISINFO: MH-17 tragedy was a special operation executed by Ukraine and...

SUMMARY

MH-17 tragedy was a special operation executed by Ukraine and those who back Kyiv in the West, in order to discredit Russia.

RESPONSE

Conspiracy theory. The international team pinpoint a hill in farmland west of Pervomaiskyi controlled by separatists as a launch site. A statement from the JIT described its evidence as “irrefutable”, offering video footage, photographs, satellite images and recordings of tapped phone calls between rebels to support its findings that the MH17 was downed by a BUK missile that had come from Russia: bbc.in/2cBgBV5,

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