Save the obfuscation and propaganda. Observers in Russia from Rostov to the border with the Ukraine have been reporting the movements of Russia’s most sophisticated SAM batteries behind the border in Russia and across the border into the Ukraine. One Russian who approvingly published a video illustrating the Russians firing these SAMs from Russian territory was arrested by Russia’s FSB for giving away the evidence on the Internet. It is irrelevant that Russian mercenaries in the Ukraine captured the SAM batteries of a Ukrainian unit, because we can plainly see Russian SAM batteries being moved into and used in the engagements.
It is also all too obvious from SIGINT intercepts of the communications between the Russian officers commanding the terrorist operations in the Ukraine and their superiors in Moscow are working for the Russian government and Putin. They even bragged about shooting down an aircraft until they realized it was MH17, and then they resented getting caught doing it, plaintively saying the victims deserved it and should have known better than to use the rebels’ skies.
Thee murderers know no shame for their grievous crimes.
Obfuscation and propaganda? What I posted supported the notion that the Russian-backed rebels had a BUK missile launcher, and so had the means to shoot down the airliner. They seized it in their capture of a Ukrainian missile base a few months ago. I obviously am no fan of KGB Putin.