Rebels shoot down two Ukrainian fighter jets days after downing of MH17
 

Pro-Russia rebels have shot down two Ukrainian fighter jets in eastern Ukraine just days after the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, a Ukrainian military spokesman has said.

"Two Sukhoi Ukrainian fighter jets have been shot down. The fate of the pilots is not known," a spokesman, Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky, said, adding that the planes had been brought down about 16 miles (25km) from the MH17 crash site.

A second military spokesman, however, said insurgent rocket fire had brought the jets down at a different location. The two pilots managed to parachute out, he said, giving no further details about their condition.

"Today in the south of the Lugansk region close to the village of Dmytrivka, pro-Russia fighters shot two Su-25 jets from a missile system," the spokesman Vladislav Seleznev said.

"The pilots took evasive action ? but the planes were hit," he said.

A spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said its fighters had shot down the two aircraft. An AFP crew trying to reach the scene was turned back by rebels, who fired shots near their car about six miles from Dmytrivka.

The downing of the fighter jets comes just six days after the insurgents were accused of shooting down the Malaysian passenger plane using a surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people on board.

Pro-Russia rebels battling government troops in the east had previously taken out a string of Ukrainian military aircraft during the conflict. Rebels have denied that they downed flight MH17, accusing the Ukrainian military of being responsible.

The latest incident came after a ceasefire was declared by both sides in the immediate vicinity of the Boeing 777 crash site, where Malaysian experts and international monitors were examining the wreckage on Wednesday.

Earlier, the first 40 bodies recovered from MH17 were flown out of the government-held city of Kharkiv to Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where they were met by bereaved families and members of the Dutch royal family.


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Welcome to the past: https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=20167426&postcount=43

but seriously, this is really sad state of affairs for people living there.......war is always terrible thing

b4 the facts?

Strange video. I thought it to be advertisement, but it isn't.

it is ! (without this music hahah)
listening to this music, now imagine all these drone operators taking xanax and using joystick to kill real people....

really sick, isn it ? :winkwink::winkwink::helpme:helpme:helpme

It really isn't advertisement, it hasn't even been shot in a single country.

I bet you mean amphetamine, but lack of sleep is actually more harmful: at first you won't care chicken shits worth and it gradually increases so that you won't care ostrich shits worth.

u bet wrong ! xanax to "calm" you down ;-)

If you watch the videos there are 4 people in the buk and another 2-3 in the radar tank. Where are these guys now?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26fe789c-1...#axzz38L60Xwv3

One of the leaders of the pro-Russian separatists admitted on Wednesday that a rebel group did have the anti-aircraft missiles that the US believes was used to shoot down flight MH17 and suggested that the missiles have since been sent back to Russia.

In comments that came close to an admission of guilt, Alexander Khodakovsky also said that the Ukrainian government had ?provoked? the crash because it flew fighter jets near to the missile system.

Asked about responsibility for the plane crash, he said: ?The question is this: Ukraine received timely evidence that the volunteers have this technology.? He added: ?It [Ukraine] not only did nothing to protect security, but provoked the use of this type of weapon against a plane that was flying with peaceful civilians.?

In an interview with Reuters, Mr Khodakovsky, who leads a group known as the Vostok Battalion, said that another section of pro-Russian rebels were in possession last week of the BUK missile system. ?I found out about it at exactly the moment that I found out that this tragedy had taken place. They probably sent it back in order to remove proof of its presence,? he was quoted as saying.
Mr Khodakovsky?s comments come after Ukraine said two of its ground attack planes shot down on Wednesday in the east of the country not far from where Flight MH17 was downed may have been hit by missiles fired from within Russian territory. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security Council, said two Su-25s had crashed near Saur-Mogila after being shot down at a height of more than 5,000m.They were not downed by terrorists,? said Mr Lysenko, using the term the Kiev government uses for pro-Russian separatists. ?According to our preliminary information it was done from across the border.?