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In reply to the discussion: Exclusive: Ukraine rebel commander acknowledges fighters had BUK missile [View all]reorg
(3,317 posts)103. just read what Khodakovsky said, please?
It comes out a little discombobulated, but his basic argument is this:
You all say you know for a fact that the militants had Buks and an prove it. (In the press conference by the Ukraine Security Service it was stated explicitly that they had "known" this several days before the accident.) Why then did your bombers stay in the vicinity of passenger planes - although you "knew" that militants would try and shoot the bombers and might hit the airliners instead?
This question stands even if the militants did in fact have not a single Buk launcher. Because the Ukraine claims they were convinced they had and therefore had to assume that they were being used.
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Exclusive: Ukraine rebel commander acknowledges fighters had BUK missile [View all]
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Jul 2014
OP
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