that s standard russia misinformation strategy. what actually happened here, the u.s. military has enormous sources to determine this from its surveillance satellites and other capabilities to look for, they re almost certain to be doing this now. the flash of a missile. the flash of an explosion in the air that would determine whether this was an explosion that originated from inside the plane or that there was a missiled launch prior to this plane coming down, and where a missile launched from. from the air or somewhere else. i was at d.i.a., defense intelligence agency, in the same room where they did the same thing. following the russian shootdown of mh-17. they looked at the data and determined it was a russian missile fired from russian-controlled territory. they are almost certainly in a similar room looking at similar data which would give an indication. was it an explosion from inside the plane? was there an explosion or a flash from a missile launch
proving that it was a russian missile that had taken down mh-17, that commercial jetliner in eastern ukraine in 2014, killing so many people. what should outside investigators be looking for in this case and prigozhin s plane that does not require russian cooperation? i think we are in a different stage now. we have so many leaks within russia, within russian security services, within russian ministry of defense, people that are actively fighting against one another that, we are going to get the answers pretty soon, i believe. we are not going to have to go through this laborious looking for shreds of shrapnel and evidence and looking for postings on social media, which is what belling ka the had to do for months and years in 2014 and 15. i think we re going to see
it was at 28,000 feet in cruise. that s the safest part of the flight. seemingly missing the wing. this simply doesn t happen. commercial airliners, modern aircraft do not lose a wing in my decades of working on plane crashes, i only had one plane that lost a wing and it was 54 years old. and also the rate of descent, normal rate is 1,000 to 3,000 feet per minute, it was clearly falling. you can see some other not just the planes. you can see some flashes. you can see other smoke. you can see debris. there s so many clues this was an explosion of the plane or a missile strike. the descent is like other shootdowns we ve seen, like mh-17, the jet liner that was shot down by a missile and the ukraine airline that was shot down by iran. so, we have a lot of clues in
girkin arrested today, his wife said, after remarks blasting the lack of progress of russia s military campaign in ukraine. translator: the situation with the special military operation and in the country in general is deplorable, to put it mildly, he said. this is a result of actions of the incumbent power. girkin is a formal colonel in the fsb and was the defense minister of the so-called people s republic in eastern ukraine when the malaysian jetliner mh-17 was shot down there in 2014. girkin was found guilty of mass murder in absentia by a dutch court for involvement in the incident, which he has never acknowledged. while girkin is considered a war criminal in ukraine, he deems himself a russian ultra nationalist who feels the war should be prosecuted even more brutally. putin s grip on power was only recently challenged by the
particular name, i believe the first version of bellingcat looked at as bellingcat was a shooting down of mh 17 the malaysia airline in 2014. so there was attention by bellingcat proper by the warren ukraine from the official start of bellingcat. i was blogging independently at the same time covering the same topics are mostly interested in disinformation and the type of information and that was part of myjournalism background. of my journalism background. and of myjournalism background. and eliot higgins asked me to contribute a couple of articles for bellingcat, which i did and then i discovered more and more there was a wide gap in the understanding of what russia s, not only russia s, but in this case security services were doing internationally and only small snippets of this information is made public by intelligence services of the west but there is much much more that would be of interest and author in the interest of