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Kerry: We know from where the pro-Russian separatists fired the missile

US secretary of state, John Kerry calls Russia to claim responsibility

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A new video released on Sunday seems to confirm the statements of US secretary of state, John Kerry. The video shows a military truck carrying a Buk anti-aircraft missile system, like the one that it reportedly shot down the Boeing 777 of Malaysia Airlines in eastern Ukraine.

 

The video was shot at the Russian-Ukrainian borders by a driver who followed the truck.

According to reports, the truck was heading to Russia and did not have a military or police escort.

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“For about 1.5 mile a Russian was driving the truck carrying the Buk anti-aircraft missile system”, Ukrainian sources said, stressing that the man who recorded the video was “certain” that this was the Buk system which shot down the Boeing 777.

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According to information from Ukraine, the anti-aircraft system was transferred secretly at night from Ukraine to Russia after the airplane crashed killing 298 people.

In the meantime, US secretary of state, John Kerry, said on Sunday that all the evidence surrounding the downed Malaysian passenger plane pointed a clear finger at Ukrainian separatists.

Speaking on CNN, Kerry said: “We have enormous input about this that points fingers. It is pretty clear that this was a system from Russia, transferred to separatists. We know with confidence that the Ukrainians did not have such a system anywhere near the vicinity at that point of time. ”

Also, according to Kerry, the United States “know for certain that in the last month, there’s been a major flow of arms and weapons. There was a convoy several weeks ago, about 150 vehicles, with armed personnel carrier, multiple rocket launchers, tanks, artillery, all of which crossed over from Russia into the eastern part of Ukraine, and was turned over to the separatists.”

He also added that “it is very clear that this is a system that was transferred from Russia,”.

A few days after the release of the intercepted phone calls  of pro-Russian separatists in which they claim that they shot down the aircraft of Malaysian Airlines, American experts confirmed its authenticity.

As the U.S. embassy in Kiev announced, it proves that the pro-Russian separatists shot down the Boeing 777 killing 298 people.

The separatists in eastern Ukraine may argue that the black boxes of the aircraft have not been found, yet, but there is a great concern regarding the truth about the research that is in progress in the area where the Malaysian Boeing 777 was crashed while Ukraine accuses pro-Russian separatists of destroying evidence of an ‘international crime’.

However, according to separatists’ statements, such as Alexander Borodai , who is one of the leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the rebels have the black boxes.

Borodai said that they kept the black boxes in a safe location in Donetsk and that they are willing to give them to international experts, explaining that “they do not have experts to analyze the boxes” and that “they do not trust” Ukrainians.

Also a video was released showing the rescuers transferring an object which looked like a flight recorder.

 

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