ukrainian plane. that tweet was later deleted, but that is more evidence cited by ukrainian officials. and just one more thing, this buk system, it s a russian made surface-to-air missile launcher, ukrainian separatists, pro russian separatists kparptd it june 29th, when they captured it, they bragged about it, on twitter. they showed a picture of it in fact. a tweet that showed this missile system and that was more evidence that ukrainian officials cited with their early suspicions that it was exactly this kind of launcher that took this plane down and u.s. officials believe the same. we ll wait to hear what the president has to say about this in an hour and 15 minutes. many thanks to you. an emergency session of the
it s surface-to-air missile. it can shoot four targets at the same time. it can shoot targets up to 45,000 feet, i believe. in listening to this tape, it seems like these guys didn t know exactly how to use this weapon? or didn t know what they were aiming at. it appears listening to these recordings which we obtained yesterday that they thought they were shooting at a ukrainian military plane, and in fact earlier this week, ukrainian separatists, ukrainian officials say two other ukrainian planes. and you hear in those conversations they are surprised, in effect, thinking that it was an an-26. this is a ukrainian military plane. and there s other evidence even beyond that recorded phone conversation because one of these rebel leaders amazingly tweeted the time at around the time that the plane went down that they had just shot down a