Shortly before reports surfaced that a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had crashed in eastern Ukraine, a social media site purported to belong to a separatist leader claimed that insurgents had shot down an aircraft.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Downed plane claim on social media site
Self-proclaimed Prime Minister of the pro-Russian separatist \"Donetsk People's Republic\", Alexander Borodai (C), and \"Donetsk People's Republic\" self-proclaimed Defence Minister, Igor Strelkov (L), deliver a press conference in Donetsk.
