going through suitcase that had fall en from the sky and talkin about whether to take a guide book. to say there s been extensive looting, at least during the morning period while i was there, is pretty difficult. you know, the perimeter there is being controlled. there s one rebel commander there who told me essentially by three groups. one is a set of fighters from nearby. the cosacks appear to be the wild card as always in this situation. so it s a little more difficult to say what s happening on their side of things. did yesterday you had talked that in some cases they were moving bodies, sort of trying to get all the victims together. does that continue today? did you see that? no, they haven t actually
two intercepted phone calls? so say the ukrainian security forces. it has to be taken in that context. they re going to argue their own book on this. the two calls they say they intercepted were between a rebel commander, and a russian are military intelligence, so they say. in which the rebel commander says that we shot this plane down. the other telephone call, they say, was between a rebel who was at the crash site and one who was off-site, in which the one of the crash sites said, yes, we shot this down, i m at the site right now, and it was our installation, our group that did the shooting down and it was about 15 miles north of here where they were stationed. so that s the latest data point. at the end of the day, this is a time where the citizens around the world are going to be very happy for the nsa, because they re going to be scarfing up these telephone calls.
bizarre. here s what happened in the last 24 hours. facing a wave of pro-russian forces that seized key government buildings in at least a dozen cities in eastern ukraine, including a small airfield, the ukrainian government, for the first time, since the very beginning of the invasion in crimea, sent out its own forces to reclaim territory. at first, they were successful, with a show of force that appeared to be welcomed by at least some of the residents s o the region. the ukrainian government claiming the airfield was successfully taken back. but as ukrainian tanks pressed on, in some instances, further into eastern ukraine, which has seen the most pro-russian activism, those tanks went on a strange kind of journey, from being ukrainian tanks to being russian tanks. in one instance, according to reuters, 15 armored personnel carriers were surrounded and halted the by a from-russian crowd, with soldiers handing over the firing pins from their rifles to a rebel commander.
facing a wave of pro-russian forces that seized key government buildings in at least a dozen cities in eastern ukraine, including a small airfield, the ukrainian government, for the first time, since the very beginning of the invasion in crimea, sent out its own forces to reclaim territory. at first, they were successful, with a show of force that appeared to be welcomed by at least some of the residents of the region. the ukrainian government claiming the airfield was successfully taken back. but as ukrainian tanks pressed on, in some instances, further into eastern ukraine, which has seen the most pro-russian activism, those tanks went on a strange kind of journey, from being ukrainian tanks to being russian tanks. in one instance, according to reuters, 15 armored personnel carriers were surrounded and halted the by a from-russian crowd, with soldiers handing over the firing pins from their rifles to a rebel commander. in another apparently separate instance, purportedly shown by
rifles to a rebel commander. in another apparently separate instance, purportedly shown by this youtube video, tweeted by wall street journal s tom garra, ukrainian armored personnel were surrounded by what appears to be a massive crowd of civilians. soldiers then seem to surrender. they seem to disembark from their tanks, joining their fellow soldiers on the ground, and then a russian flag is waved above one of the tanks to the cheers of the crowds. whether those tanks were ultimately taken over by pro-russian civilians or russian special forces or both is still unclear. whether they were deserters or captured is also unclear. ukraine defense ministry did confirm that six apcs were seized, it said, with the help of russian agents. ultimately, which is what became of kievs resolute desire to take back eastern ukraine. a formerly ukrainian tank, now a