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    Bellingcat and the lickspittle Dutch at it again re:MH17 Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on June 18, 2019, 8:14 pm

    https://www.dumptheguardian.com/world/2019/jun/18/mh17-prosecutors-to-identify-suspects-and-file-first-charges

    Perhaps realising that the Skripal scam wasn't taking, they are trying to move to what they consider safer ground in the anti-russia stakes, MH17.

    Dutch prosecutors are to identify suspects and file the first criminal charges over the 2014 downing of flight MH17 over east Ukraine which killed 298 people in the worst atrocity in five years of war between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists.

    The charges are likely to target members of a Russia-backed separatist movement and may include Russian service personnel who commanded or helped transport the anti-aircraft missile system used to bring down the plane.

    Strange how this "investigation" just dribbles information out as and when it suits the opponents of Russia.

    Ukraine’s foreign ministry on Tuesday confirmed that criminal charges would be brought against the suspects named in the JIT’s presentation.

    “The names will be announced. Charges will be brought. After that, the criminal court of Schiphol will start working to consider this case,” Ukraine’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, Olena Zerkal, told the news agency Interfax-Ukraine.

    No conflict of interest here, no siree. Not like we were seriously suspected of being responsible for the shoot-down.

    The investigative collective Bellingcat, which gathered and analysed open-source data about the attack, will also make a presentation on Wednesday identifying “separatists involved in the downing of MH17”.

    Bellingcat has written extensively about the case. Last year it identified one of those allegedly involved as Oleg Ivannikov, a career officer in the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU, who operated undercover in rebel-controlled Luhansk in eastern Ukraine under the cover names “Orion” and “Andrey Ivanovich”, the website said.

    Spealing of lickspittles, surprise, surprise, here's everyone's favourite source that can be trusted without any questions whatsoever...Bellingshat. And for their first trick a quick change of history:

    The downing of the jet came in the early months of a war between Ukraine’s army and Russia-backed separatists that has left more than 13,000 people dead. While Ukraine’s army held air superiority in the conflict, separatist forces mysteriously began shooting down Ukrainian jet fighters and troop transports, and Russia was suspected of providing them with anti-aircraft missile systems.

    Pro-separatist websites initially welcomed the downing of MH17, believing the plane to be an An-26 troop transport, before realising a passenger jet had been targeted.

    I'm thinking they assume enough time has passed for their whole "Russia did it" narrative to solidify as fact in the minds of casual observers.
    It's also timed so as to be another distraction to the Russians just as the heat gets turned up around Iran and the latest of Gulf of Trumpkin incident.

    It should be interesting what dog and pony show the Bellend boys come up with tomorrow.

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