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Caught on camera: With one missile gone, the BUK/SA-11 launcher is hurriedly driven back to Russia where it came from, maybe as late as the 29th June. I was ordered hidden behind a hotel. Note that it came with its own personnel from Russia.
So the inevitable has happened. Just like when the Korean Air Jumbojet KAL 007 was shot down by Soviet aircraft over Sakhalin in 1983. We all sit in stunned silence as the dust and smoke settles over the Ukrainian plains, while hooded and masked men with no names and no apparent commitment to civilized life stuble among torn limbs, twisted metal and smoldering remnants.
Grief, sorrow or even a brief thought between hateful slurs and Rambo-style swagger? None apparent. The level of mismanagement is jaw-dropping. The amateurism blatantly obvious: they have no clue either what they have managed to do, or what now is a radically new setting.
All this seen against the actual operation of this missile system, that requires skilled and professional personnel. Only in russia is it possible to set advanced missile systems in the hands of people that are at best drunken loats, and at worst fanatical gung-ho "guns-for-hire" under a variety of commanders like Igor Girkin (Strelkov, "the shooter" among closer friends)
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Launch control of the BUK, named SA-11 by western intelligence:
No place for a bunch of trigger-happy morons?
Girkin initially boasted of downing what they believed to be an unarmed Ukrainian transport plance travelling at 6000 m, having managed to so just that on monday 14. 7.
That missile is still investigated, and most claim it was launched from russian territory and obviously by russian personnel. Both planes travelled at altitudes beyond the 3000-4000 m capability of a sholder-fired MANPAD.
As soon as the terrible truth emerged about it being a civilian plane, Girkin and the separatists deleted the boasting Twitter message and effectively went underground.
No sooner had the arms and legs of women and children come to rest in the fields before Russia started a storm of innuendos and distorted messages in the media.
Alexander Borodai, a distinguished member of Lugansk Free Republic ("retired" on august 4 just as things start go look very bad ..) claimed that Ukraina had herself managed to shoot the aircraft down, while separatist leader Denis Pusjilin disappeared to Moscow.
The level of false facts were such that more staff resigned in protest from the state-run RT News Network in protest.
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Loose talk: too fast. Yet too slow to remove. Too damning.
Putin has gone notably silent, though one can imagine the echoes of animated talk under the crystal chandeliers of the Kremlin.
One of the men identified on tapes where separatist leaders openly and somewhat brainlessly admit to the shooting down is Igor Bezler, lieutenant-colonel in the russian army and affiliated with the separatists in Donetsk.
The work to investigate what is the largest scene of inter-state terror has just started. En route from Donetsk to the site, the reporters are stopped and checked/frisked at least 10-12 times by nervous and ruddy faced men packing more firepower than the size of their shoes would normally allow. All answer to different factional leaders, and the coordination is zero.
CNNs reporters on-site mention rather in measured terms that the luggage clearly has not only been moved around, but also pillaged and looted of valuables.
Noted should be the total absence of cell-phones in the debris.
The russians, the Cossaks from the town of Chernukhino that according to the audio tapes pulled the trigger wander around, contaminating the crimescene. The victims of this latest russian contribution to the world order lie in the fields, decomposing in the 30 C heat.
A full 10 minute car-ride away, a woman fell through the roof of a small house, while a young boy hid in the cellar. The womans body lay under a gaping hole in the roof for a full two days before anyone took care of her.
One cannot but wonder with what right these killers claim to be civilized. The story just started. With absolute certainty it will change all, and hopefully be the Hiroshima of this war, and cause the empty russia to once again collapse. This time re-emerging in a better and more respectable form.
Meanwhile, in Kremlin lies another man turning a deaf ear to Putins lamentations.
Lenin himself has been dead long enough to remain dead, no matter fantasies of Emperor Putin.
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