“The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and the Interior Ministry have collected and continue to collect irrefutable evidence and proof that point to the authors of this tragedy from the terrorist organization DNR/LNR (Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republic), and their Russian, Putinist masters,” said Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
“The data we have allow us to state that the plane Boeing 777 was shot down by the Donetsk terrorists with the use of anti-missile system Buk M, which was transferred from Russia’s territory”, the State Security Service said in a statement.
Here is a timeline of all movements of Buks on Ukraine’s territory, as known by Ukraine’s security service.
June 29 – Terrorist groups in eastern Ukraine boast on social networks that they have in their possession Buk anti-missile systems, capable of hitting airborne targets at the altitude of 25 kilometers – higher than cruise altitude of commercial airlines. MH17, which was shot down on July 17, was flying at 10 kilometers. However, the Buks in possession of terrorists were broken and unusable, which had been admitted by their representatives.
July 14 – SBU taps a conversation that presents the first evidence that terrorist units have in their possession the anti-missile system Buk, which is capable of hitting targets at a significant altitude. But at the time there was no other confirmation of its location on the territory of Ukraine at the time. This is a conversation between “Oleg” Bugrov Oleg Yevgenievich, chief of headquarters of Lugansk People’s Republic’s Army, deputy defense minister of the Lugansk People’s Republic, and “Oreon” – a citizen of Russian Federation, officer of Main Intelligence Department of the Main Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Oreon says: “We have a Buk now, fuck it! We will shoot them down.”
July 17, 1 a.m. SBU’s counter-intelligence department receives information that Russian Federation passed a Buk, complete with a team, to the terrorist groups in Ukraine. It was transferred over the border close to the town of Sukhodolsk at 1 a.m.
July 17, 9:00 a.m. Buk was moved to Donetsk, and later to Pervomaisk. The information comes from another tapped conversation released by the SBU where two terrorists, identified as “Khmuryi” (Sergei Nikolayevich Petrovskiy, officer of Main Intelligence Department of the Main Headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) and “Buryat” (an unidentified fighter of Donetsk People’s Republic) discuss what to do with the missile launch system. Buryat says he brought one system, and it needs to be hidden. But Khmurui says it will traveling along with tanks of Vostok battalion, and directs the Buk to Pervomaisk.
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July 18, 4:50 a.m. — Interior Ministry’s intelligence unit recorded a crawler tractor carrying a missile system moving towards the border of the Russian Federation. The video clearly shows missiles, but the middle one of three is missing.
“We’re analyzing this and other collected information. We think this is the very Buk system which shot at the civilian plane flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur,” Avakov said. He said that the terrorists were “trying to hide evidence of the terrible crime.”
