[ncalburt]

the separatist line is pure crap.A hoax.
Putin has unleashed the Russian military swat teams and Paid Chechen mercenaries.
They are the thugs in black that swept into Crimea and now are assigned to this Ukraine region.
They are Russian military and Chechens that have been shooting down planes for weeks.
Did you ever read up on what the WW II Russian army did went it was unleashed on Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany!
These creatures were robbing the dead passengers in the fields.

[plain talk]

Perhaps. Perhaps not. I think these people that shot down this plane were less trained or they would have not shot down a passenger plane. Better trained people would not have screwed up like that and there is nothing for them to gain by shooting down a commercial airliner and they now expose themselves to being hassled big time.

Russia has nothing to gain itself by shooting down a commercial airliner. More likely it was rebels armed by Russia