Editor’s Note: This story first appeared on the Novaya Gazeta website. Since its release, the Joint Investigation Team of investigators from the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Malaysia and Ukraine indicted Russian citizens Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and a Ukrainian citizen – Leonid Kharchenko. According to the JIT, further indictments may follow. Following that, the BBC’s Russian Service reported that Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Tsemakh, linked to the MH17 downing in 2014, was captured by Ukraine’s security service (SBU) and taken to custody in the government-controlled territory. He formerly commanded anti-aircraft defense of the separatists in the town of Snizhne, which is near to where the Russian missile that brought down MH17 was fired from.
What were the Russian anti-aircraft gunners doing near the Ukrainian border on the day of the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777?
