Since the BUKs the “rebels” are using are on loan from Russia in the first place, what would be the point of destroying this launcher? It’s not like it’s the only one Russia owns, and even presuming that the firing information was somehow semi-permanently stored in the launcher’s computers, it would be far less wasteful simply to pull the computers or their storage devices, and destroy those.
Even simpler would be to drop the launcher off in a motorpool full of launchers, then play a “shell game” with them by shuffling them all off to some remote “exercise area”, ostensibly to “take them out of reach of the separatists”, and at the same time obfuscate whatever evidence apparently needs to be hidden.
The fuzzy picture of a launcher on a truck somewhere in some country sure is damning evidence.
About the only thing I have faith in is that I don’t believe anything I have heard with regard to who did what.
Which lie is the truth?