p2re referenced a youtube video yesterday at 23:26,which was from a conference 10 days ago where seperatists were saying they were expecting specialists to fix the Buk system they had.
Some kind work by some Russian speaking friends have delved up this:
http://euromaidanonline.com/priznani...hinke-buka-iz/
Hit translate and it appears to confirm this.
Next is a news item from a Russian news agency (similar was on several), dated 29 June, stating that the rebels have at least one Buk system
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1741703
Read it before they take this down too.
Looks like the Rebels had Russian help getting the SAM launcher up and running...
See also
https://news.vice.com/video/russian-...te-dispatch-58
Interesting: yesterday afternoon saw the end of the "Donetsk Republic"... at least in the Russian media. Now it's Eastern Ukraine again... (tweet by the Estonian President earlier this morning)