When Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in July of 2014, the Russian government was immediately suspected as the culprit.
Now, according to Ukrainian authorities, Russia was so desperate to cover-up their involvement in the downing of the civilian aircraft, they were willing to try anything — even assassination.
Ukraine’s chief military prosecutor, Anatoliy Matios, said Monday the country had arrested “the killer who attempted to murder the chief expert on the case of the downed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777” in Nov. 2015.
Last year one of the chief forensic scientists investigating the cause of the crash, Oleksandr Ruvin, 56, was shot three times, and the brazen attack was immediately linked to his role in the criminal probe.
The assassin may lead straight back to Russian mobsters widely suspected of being loyal to President Vladimir Putin, according to the Ukrainian News Agency who said, “One of the investigation’s theories is that Ruvin’s murder was ordered by Russia.”
It was determined in Oct. 2015 by an international probe that MH17 was shot down by a Soviet-made Buk anti-aircraft missile launched from eastern Ukraine, controlled by rebels backed by the Russians.
The incident, which claimed the lives of 298 passengers and crew, led to Europe’s flight safety authority to call for better, quicker and broader information-sharing about possible risks to aircraft passing over combat zones.
The Cologne-based European Aviation Safety Agency said that “airlines have expressed a need for a consolidated picture of the safety/security situation” and have “vastly different resources available to them.”
EASA urged EU nations to establish national systems for addressing risks to civil aviation over combat zones, which EASA would then distribute. It said intelligence agencies should contribute information, as well as the airlines themselves.
The proposal was given to the Dutch presidency of the European Council in March.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
An airplane mechanic in Ukraine whistle-blew the truth two days after the event. He reported that a Russian-made jet fighter took off with two air-to-air missiles shortly before the shoot-down. The aircraft returned to base minutes after the crash of MH 17, without missiles, and the pilot was so anxious that he was visibly trembling as he entered base-ops. Indigenous locals also reported two jet fighters, one that shot down MH 17 and then shot down the 2nd jet fighter.
The contrived propaganda against Russia and Putin continues to flow, most of which is recognized as fraudulent propaganda.
In summer time we traveled to Europe ,This case was widely talk about in all media because international commission for investigating MH17crash finished work on. There were representatives of Denmark , Holland ,Malaysia , Belgium and some other countries. They excluded Russia from accusation of shooting down the plane .They did not state who caused it. IN statement they said it was air to air shootings from Ukraine side . Russia was not involved. They get records of that flight from Russia and Spain but USA and Ukraine refused to deliver their own records . Ukraine stated that somebody destroy records from tower of communication.
This idea that Russia is behind the assassination attempt is rather jumping the gun since there has thus far been no actual evidence as to who the perpetrators of the downed airplane were: it also seems somewhat unlikely that the shooting was connected with the airplane investigation since, if they’ve retained the material evidence he was working on, to kill one forensic scientist just requires replacing him with another. There must be some other explanation for the shooting which will doubtless come to light in due course.
There is very little President Putin could be accused of that would surprise me. This guy is a holdover from the Soviet Union. There is nothing he would like more than to return to the Cold War and gain control over the land mass once governed by the USSR. The Russians have a long history of murdering people by downing civilian aircraft.
Yes, Justin and we all believe you are really Jack the Ripper!!! Where is your proof of anything scumbag?
Just more Police State Propaganda from the puppets of the Central Banksters that want to start another world war. This is getting as bad as the Man Made Climate Change Hoax & Lies.
It’s more likely that the Ukrainians tried to knock off their own investigator as he was getting close to the truth that Ukrainians shot down MH17. Blaming the Russians on this failed assassination attempt is a propaganda ploy to divert attention when people start asking questions. I bet that investigator won’t be following his line of investigation any more. He would have been warned off, and will stick to the official Ukrainian line that the pro-Russian rebels shot down MH17 with a missile launcher they did not possess were not trained to operate, and had no need for, as they had manpads capable of taking out the low flying Ukrainian air force jets, and had no reason to shoot down a civilian airliner. Ukraine on the other hand may have been trying to shoot down Putin’s aircraft that was in the area at the same time. This was a plot that went seriously wrong for the Ukrainian nazi government.
Most likely the truth. This report came straight from the crooked and illegal Ukrainian government. Does anyone think they would tell it any other way? Really?
” Cover Up” wonder why, very odd OR plane was hit by missiles or fighters.
Odd then no radio from crew about if any fighter strikes being made.,
Something stinks in the Kremlin.\
“May”, “widely suspected”, “theories”. Typical press-release non-story sourced from the likely culprits themselves. This died many months ago when the press stopped reporting on it as evidence pointed increasingly to Ukrainian forces.
As weak as Mr. Obama is with Mexico, aren’t we lucky we don’t border Russia. I know, the ICBMs make the distance meaningless.