Ukraine (closed; covers till August 2014)

[Shchors]

You just attached a report from the military judge advocate in the Dnipropetrovsk military district regarding ongoing investigations into instances of Ukrainian armor falling into the hands of the Russian separatists on the territory of Ukraine (there is the suspicion that certain military personnel at arms depots allowed these losses without a fight) I agree that these pieces of equipment fall well short of 100. But what does that have to do with Russian armor sneaking across the border into the Donbas? Video evidence of such incursions are multiple and overwhelming. I fail to see your point. And why should I read anything in Wikepedia? By the way, thanks for attaching this document. If authentic, it is a valuable source for future citation.

[OUTLAW 09]

This is the 16th version released by the Russians today by RIA as they attempt to side track the accusations that the Russian mercenaries shot down the airliner.

Appears now that the US supports the Russia released version that it was the Ukrainians. Not sure how the Russians some how think the US indirectly admitted it--but again it was that unnamed Russian Defense Ministry guy.

Information was released to day by the black box analysis team---the plane was hit by a missile explosion that went completely through the aircraft.

MOSCOW, July 27 (RIA Novosti) – The United States has indirectly admitted that Kiev’s air defense systems were present near Donetsk when the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed, thus confirming the data of Russian satellites, a senior source in the Russian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti on Sunday.

"In his statement, the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest implicitly acknowledged that Ukraine’s air defense systems had been present in the Donetsk area, although he claimed they had not been operating," the source said, commenting on Earnest’s words that the missile that hit the flight MH17 was launched from the area controlled by the militia.

The source stressed that the United States thus confirmed the authenticity of the data, provided by the images from Russian satellites at a special briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry on July 21. It was stated during that briefing that Ukraine’s air defense forces had four Buk-M1 missile systems near the city of Donetsk.