Ukrainian Su-25 fighter detected in close approach to MH17 before crash – Moscow
Posted on July 21st, 2014
Courtesy RT
The Russian military detected a Ukrainian SU-25 fighter jet gaining height towards the MH17 Boeing on the day of the catastrophe. Kiev must explain why the military jet was tracking the passenger airplane, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
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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.
At the moment of the MH17 crash an American satellite was flying over the area of eastern Ukraine, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry. It urged the US to publish the space photos and data captured by it.
‘Ukrainian Buk missile system transported to militia-held area’
In addition, 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.
Another image shows a radar station near Donetsk.
While the third picture shows the location of the air defense systems near Donetsk, he explained. In particular, one can clearly see a TELAR launcher and about 60 military and auxiliary vehicles, tents for vehicles and other structures, he elaborated.
Images from this area were also made on July 17. One should notice that the missile launcher is absent [from the scene]. Image number five shows the Buk missile system in the morning of the same day in the area of settlement Zaroschinskoe – 50km south of Donetsk and 8km south of Shakhtyorsk,” the Kartapolov said
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.
Images taken on July 18 show that the missile systems left the area of the MH17 crash, the military official said.
Kartapolov also pointed to the fact that on the day of the plane crash Ukraine’s military increased activity on the part of Ukraine’s Kupol-M1 9S18 radars, which are part of the Buk system.
“..there were 7 radars operating on July 15, 8 radars operating on July 16, and 9 radars operating on July 17 in the area. Then, starting with July 18, the intensity of radar activities radically decreased, and now there are no more than two or three radars operating a day. The reason behind this is yet to be found.”
In response to Moscow’s evidence, Kiev said on Monday it had proof the missile that brought down a Malaysian airliner last week came from Russia.
“There is evidence that the missile which struck the plane was fired by terrorists, who received arms and specialists from the Russian Federation,” spokesman for Ukraine’s Security Council Andrey Lysenko told a news conference. “To disown this tragedy, [Russia] are drawing a lot of pictures and maps. We will explore any photos and other plans produced by the Russian side.”
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday that Kiev has strong evidence” of the causes of the MH17 crash.
We know exactly the place [the surface-to-air missile was] launched, we know exactly the place where it hit the civilian plane and the place where the plane crashed.”
Kiev is ready to hand the information to the international investigation commission, according to the presidential press-service.
July 21st, 2014 at 2:25 pm
There you go!
A few hours before the incident a Ukrainian SU-25 was shot down by a Russian MIG-29.
There is a possibility Ukraine govt. shot down MH-17 by their SU-25 jet to put the blame on Russians.
July 21st, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Ukraine’s government was stolen by a Big Zionist. This murderer , in the name of democracy going killing spree in Ukraine. Rather than direct attack Putin is playing a similar game to the west, which again is not right. Nevertheless, there is no motivation to anyone else to shoot down MAS plane when so many other planes are hovering over the same air space. Malaysia is a long term critic of Israel’s murderous tactics, recently Malaysian PM stupidly jokingly congratulated Germany for beating Brazil calling Germany “Hitler”. This is definitely Zionists killing two birds in 1 stone.
On the same day ground troops moved into Gaza killing hundreds and to divert attention they conspired together with Kiev to do this and blame Putin..
July 22nd, 2014 at 8:45 am
Taking all reports into consideration, the most likely culprit is the Ukrainian regime.
This is why the US/UK leaders and their servile press is trying hard to point the finger at Russia and the Ukrainian rebels, without producing a shred of credible evidence, whereas Russia is taking a cool headed approach, cooperating on an impartial investigation by independent authorities.
Also, previous reports mentioned:
– that the Russian Airforce One plane taking President Putin back to Russia, (same length and same colours as the Malaysian Plane) intersected the exact spot, just 20 minutes after the Malaysian Plane was brought down, and questioned whether the real target was President Putin’s plane, but the Malaysian plane was a mistaken target;
– Ukrainian rebels claimed seeing two fighter jets following the aircraft, giving the impression, it was an air to air missile that brought down the plane;
– Ukrainian regime was double quick to release the so called recordings of rebel communications, which the rebels have dismissed as amateurish fakes;
– Ukrainian rebels handing over the un-tampered black box to Malaysia, and releasing the well preserved bodies of victims to Netherlands for an impartial investigation;
– Ukrainian regime commencing bombing of the rebel held town, closest to the incident, right at the time independent investigators were to visit the site;
– USA which had satellites above the location at the time of the incident, according to Russia, has so far failed to release the satellite images of the incident;
– Russia having monitored Ukrainian regime activating its defence systems and also as per this report, have sent up fighter jets to the path reserved for civilian airlines, which needs explanation;
– but most of all, my suspicion is in the almost panic stricken accusations let off by the Ukrainian Regime and its Western backers.
Also, it is no secret that forces like Soros of USA, was accused of bringing down the Malaysian economy to its knees, during the time of anti-Western Dr Mahathir Mohamed was its Prime Minister, by undermining the Malaysian currency. We are yet to find out what happened to the recently disappeared Malaysian airliner, which was apparently taken over by a possible remote control mechanism and dumped in the Indian ocean. With the destruction of this second Malaysian plane, the prediction is Malaysian airliner would go bankrupt hurting the Malaysian economy for a long long time.