Originally Posted by
blackbird69
How they could mix up MH17 with an Ukraine transport is still unclear, and was already discussed in this thread. Even more so if these were Russian regular soldiers.
The Russian soldiers (Buk TELAR crew) were told (in Russian) via cellphone: "bird flew to you". The
phone tap (0:22) was
published by an Ukrainian
law enforcement agency on July 25. On October 27 an
interview with Westerbeke (JIT) was published mentioning phone taps:
außerdem liegen uns diverse Aufnahmen von Telefongesprächen vor, die die ukrainische Polizei mitgeschnitten hat. Einiges davon ist bereits online verfügbar, wir haben allerdings umfangreicheres Material bekommen.
Google translation:
we also several recordings of telephone conversations before, which has recorded the Ukrainian police. Some of this is already available online, but we did get richer material.
On March 4 Westerbeke
said:
We are looking at forensic evidence, phone tap analyses from the time around the crash, witness accounts and many different scenarios
The fact that Westerbeke still talks about phone taps after 4 months evidences that the taps weren't dismissed as fake despite widespread distrust of them when they were published.