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their involvement. they say they have removed debris ask bodies from the scene and taken three missile systems out of ukraine. reporter: the ukrainian government continues to build a case against the rebels in eastern ukraine that it is battling and against russia which it claims arms and trains and funds those rebels. accusing them of being behind the shooting down of malaysian air flight 17. the prime minister told me he thinks there s a high probability that russia supplied the rebels with the buk missile system which was used to shoot down the fateful fight. this is not the russian-led drunk terrorists. this is someone well trained. someone who knows how this russian machine works. someone who has an experience. and we together with the
you re saying that these separatists couldn t just jump into this thing and press a trigger and make that rocket launch and hit that airliner? this is a very sophisticated system and unless the rebels had people with the training in this particular system then someone has to come in and help them use it. and that s where the investigation should focus. who came in? who helped them? where did they get their expertise from? and that deadly expertise is necessary, item, the training manual for the s.a. 11 system. two years of training to be a noncommissioned officer operating that system on the buk missile system with an sa 11 or 20 more training. this is years of training. item getting rid of the murder weapon. officials released a video of an sa 1 is leaving a missile leaving the scene of the crime. proof, ukraine says that the
in five minutes, shoot it very quickly. it s incredibly mobile. then on the other hand, there s the fact it is an incredibly sophisticated missile system, though it s not the most sophisticated in the russians arsenal. you know a lot about this. how easy is it for someone to train and operate the buk? six months. six months. the army uses about a six-month training period for someone to operate a system this complicated. now, to believe this was given to the separatists and they were able to operate this just defies logic for me. the russians either had to take them to russia, train them, and take them back. so we re talking about a six-month time. or the russians sent advisers in, advisers in quotes, to run the isle f system for them. your belief they sent the advisers in themselves. when you look at the length of the conflict, there isn t the six-month leave time. as we get more intelligence
of the country. out of sight as fast as they could. okay. everything right now indicates that this was a mistake. they didn t know what they were shooting at. the rebels may have thought it was a ukrainian military plane, a cargo plane. if they were using this equipment correctly, is that mistake possible? not really. the fact that they shot at a civilian airliner is very troubling. what it tells me is they are probably not using the entire system. the buk missile system has four components. one is an air surveillance radar. it is capable of determining what the target is. it also has a height finder and a trans ponder interrogator that would receive the code that said i m a civilian aircraft. it doesn t look like they did that step. it looks like they turned on the tracking radar. found a piece of metal in the sky where they thought it might be and fired.