Heli-phile has found a phenomenal source. Professional news photographer who knows what to shoot and has a great camera. Dozens of shots of DAMAGE. 100% this was shot down.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jeroenakkermans/
This guy is THE GUY for this. He is a region expert and even has an entry in the Dutch Wikipedia. Here is my translation:
Jeroen Akkermans started at RTL News in 1989 as a producer, editor and reporter at the special European desk. In 1991 Akkermans became a correspondent in Moscow. His earlier experience was for Super Channel, Reuters TV and European Business Today. In Russia, he made the documentary Hostages of the Gulag.
In 1994 he received the Dick Scherpenzeel Prize for his reports on the war in Chechnya.
From 1996 to 2001 Akkermans was a correspondent in London. <snip boring stuff>
After 2001 Akkermans, based in Berlin, travelled Eastern Europe and the Balkans as a correspondent for Yahoo! News.
On August 12, 2008, his leg was injured during a Russian bombardment in the Georgian town of Gori. Cameraman Stan Storimans was killed in the explosion. In 2009 Akkermans returned to Georgia and made a documentary based on this missile attack. Akkermans, together with the widow of Stan Storimans and Georgian survivors of the attack on Gori sued Russia the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. [result not given in story]
In 2009 he published a book, There Are Limits, about the euphoria and disappointments of Europe.
In 2011 Akkermans made the documentary Chernobyl, 25 years after the disaster.
He knows what to look for, knows what he's seeing. And must understand the language (even if maybe he can't speak it).
AHHH he didn't just arrive, he's been there for a while, he has albums from various earlier stages of the conflict. Guy's a war correspondent.