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Old 21st Jul 2014, 21:44
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MoD conference

The photos published on mil.ru are the same photos that were shown on Russian MoD conference today (Russian with English translation). Key thesis they were talking about, based on ATC radar data, satellite photos and their own analysis:
  1. MH17 had an unexplainable deviation from the air corridor just before it crashed - just before Donetsk it went 14 km north, leaving the corridor, then apparently tried to return, and then was shot down
  2. Ukrainian army had a number of "Buk" squads present in the area whose range covered MH17 crash location
  3. There was Su-25 climbing towards the MH17 that got closest at 3-5 km distance from the Boeing
  4. technically the Su-25 might reach 10 km and could be equipped with air-to-air rockets

This is more-less what they said. At least items 1 and 4 should be easy to verify, others are practically unverifiable.

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