They were using their weapons not 10 miles away but displaying them to intimidate people 10 feet away to keep them from accessing the shootdown site —
You really are a shameless Russian partisan, aren’t you???
You have a brain, try using it. If noting FACTS makes me a “Shameless Russian Partisan”, does that mean the FACTS have a pro-Russian bias??
Now, if you had tried THINKING, you would know that there was fighting not far from there within the last few hours, and now Kiev is claiming it wasn’t “Their people”, but one of the “independent militias” that they don’t control.
It was actually the Ukrainian troops trapped in the airport trying to break out, but to admit the FACT that it was their units throwing mortars around Central Donetsk while all those Europeans were in town, would make Kiev look bad, yet again.