Russia-backed militants shot down Malaysian aircraft
July 18, 2014  11:05
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A group of Russia-backed Cossack militants has been held responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, near the village of Chornukhine, some 80 kilometers north-west of Donetsk.

Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny, Ukraine's special purpose law enforcement agency, reportedly intercepted a phone call made at 4:40 pm Kyiv time, or 20 minutes after the plane crash, by Igor Bezler -- who the SBU says is a Russian military intelligence officer and leading commander of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

He reported to a person identified by Ukraine's SBU as a colonel in the main intelligence department of the general headquarters of the armed forces of the Russian Federation Vasili Geranin regarding the shot down plane, which is about to be examined by the militants. Read more
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