The truth?

The US has concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot by an air-to-air missile. They also believed the Ukraine government had a hand in it but Russia was made to pay a heavy price when Washington and its European allies formulate heavier sanctions on Moscow.

The analysts also stemmed from the fact that despite assertions from the Obama administration, there has not been a shred of tangible evidence to support the conclusion that Russia supplied the rebels with the BUK-M1 anti-aircraft missile system that would be needed to hit a civilian jetliner flying at 33,000 feet.

Ukraine and Russia kept denying any involvement in the incident, which sparked worldwide criticism on the two former 'one nation under Soviet Union' over their territorial war that posed serious danger to civil aviation.

KUALA LUMPUR: INTELLIGENCE analysts in the United States had already concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by an air-to-air missile, and that the Ukrainian government had had something to do with it.
This corroborates an emerging theory postulated by local investigators that the Boeing 777-200 was crippled by an air-to-air missile and finished off with cannon fire from a fighter that had been shadowing it as it plummeted to earth.
In a damning report dated Aug 3, headlined “Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts”, Associated Press reporter Robert Parry said “some US intelligence sources had concluded that the rebels and Russia were likely not at fault and that it appears Ukrainian government forces were to blame”.
This new revelation was posted on GlobalResearch, an independent research and media organisation.
In a statement released by the Ukrainian embassy on Tuesday, Kiev denied that its fighters were airborne during the time MH17 was shot down. This follows a statement released by the Russian Defence Ministry that its air traffic control had detected Ukrainian Air Force activity in the area on the same day.

Parry also cited a July 29 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview with Michael Bociurkiw, one of the first Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) investigators to arrive at the scene of the disaster, near Donetsk.

Bociurkiw is a Ukrainian-Canadian monitor with OSCE who, along with another colleague, were the first international monitors to reach the wreckage after flight MH17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine.

In the CBC interview, the reporter in the video preceded it with: “The wreckage was still smouldering when a small team from the OSCE got there. No other officials arrived for days”.
“There have been two or three pieces of fuselage that have been really pockmarked with what almost looks like machinegun fire; very, very strong machinegun fire,” Bociurkiw said in the interview.
Parry had said that Bociurkiw’s testimony is “as close to virgin, untouched evidence and testimony as we’ll ever get. Unlike a black-box interpretation-analysis long afterward by the Russian, British or Ukrainian governments, each of which has a horse in this race, this testimony from Bociurkiw is raw, independent and comes from one of the two earliest witnesses to the physical evidence.
“That’s powerfully authoritative testimony. Bociurkiw arrived there fast because he negotiated with the locals for the rest of the OSCE team, who were organising to come later,” Parry had said.

In a related development, Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine have added pieces of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane wreckage to a makeshift roadblock, to prevent people from entering the separatist Donetsk region.


Ukrainian journalists captured images of what appear to be pieces of the aircraft’s fuselage and other parts scattered next to a roadblock near the village of Rassypnoye, Europics reports.

“We wanted to take more pictures and question about how the wreckage was being used in this way,” journalist Boris Mihalov said.
“They wanted to take the camera’s memory card, but we gave them an empty one.”
The photos were given to Ukrainian authorities.
Ukrainian media officials say the photos of the wreckage being used as a roadblock are an example of the lack of respect rebels have shown since the attack.

This is not what we expected from them after all efforts were made to facilitate investigations. They toyed around with justice, and I personally believe we should condemn them!