transport plane. they ve already shot down two of them. they probably thought they were going to shoot down another one. and when they realized that it was a commercial airliner the deed had been done. and i think the quick response of the military commander in the separatist group who came out on their website and said, hey, we shot down another an-26, oops, took down the post. that is it s just more than circumstantial. i think we re going to find out it probably was something if it is, what do we do? well, here s the thing. they got that supposedly they got the weapons system, the sa-11, they got it from a ukrainian weapons depot that they had overrun. now, there were people who probably got training in the ukrainian military on that. so trying to do who shot john, that s going to be relatively easy to figure out. exactly who the people were in
only was it definitely not them, it couldn t have been them. sound familiar? they said, their surface-to-air missiles, yeah, they had a few, but they consisted of ones like these, man portable systems, better known as man pads, although in american english that s a weird term so we re more comfortable calling them shoulder-fired missiles. they don t have the range to take down an airliner flying at 30,000 feet. they say, that s all we have, we couldn t have done it. for the kind of strike that took down this flight today you d need something more powerful, something like these. these are a variety of mobile sort of truck-mounted surface-to-air missiles called a buk missile system. b-u-k. these are used both by the russian military and by the ukrainian military. though the pro-russian separatists who control the parts of ukraine where this plane was shot down today, the separatists were eager to tell reporters all they ve got is shoulder fired missiles so. this couldn t have been their
it couldn t have been them. sound familiar? they said, their surface-to-air missiles, yeah, they had a few, but they consisted of ones like these, man portable systems, better known as man pads, although in american english that s a weird term so we re more comfortable calling them shoulder-fired missiles. they don t have the range to take down an airliner flying at 30,000 feet. they say, that s all we have, we couldn t have done it. for the kind of strike that took down this flight today you d need something more powerful, something like these. these are a variety of mobile sort of truck-mounted surface-to-air missiles called a buk missile system. b-u-k. these are used both by the russian military and by the ukrainian military. though the pro-russian separatists who control the parts of ukraine where this plane was shot down today, the separatists were eager to tell reporters all they ve got is shoulder fired missiles so. this couldn t have been their
appear to be. all they re doing is further escalating tension. it s difficult to know what their intent is. that s a question you should ask the russian military defense. they re there. they re going by size week by week. they do nothing more than escalate tension. is that process separate from these regular i haven t seen any indication they re actively involved in the provision of support to the separatists. i haven t seencontinuing to mas along that side of the border. justin. two questions. do that massing of forces, does that include air, defense, artillery systems like the sa 11 that was used in malaysian have you seen air defense equipment on the russian side of the border in that build-up? i don t have an inventory of what they ve got with them, justin. we assess these are combined arms units. in other words, it s not just
handy work even if they wanted to. in late june, the same separatists were bragging to russian language media that actually they d just taken over a ukrainian military air defense base which, wouldn t you know it, was armed with those powerful buk system anti-aircraft missiles, the kind that can absolutely hit a plane that 30,000 feet, 40,000 feet, 50,000 feet, used to shoot planes out of the sky. that s exactly what they re designed for. there are reports that the official twitter feed of the donetsk people s republic, self-proclaimed separatist government of that region, there are reports today that they even tweeted out a picture of the buk missile system that they captured in june. this is reported to be that picture that they tweeted. that original tweet has been deleted if it ever existed in the first place, so we re just left with those reports. but i should tell you the associated press reported today that its own journalists today, early today, saw a launcher similar to the