{"id":17342,"date":"2014-07-16T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-07-16T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T19:07:00","slug":"Russian-Rebel-boasts-about-shooting-Malaysian-Airlines-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17342","title":{"rendered":"Russian Rebel boasts about shooting Malaysian Airlines’ plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Malaysian Airlines’ flight 17 was shot down, Igor Girkin, the self-proclaimed defense minister of the Donetsk People\u2019s Republic, relayed both a warning and a celebratory message through his VK.com account \u2013 Russia\u2019s version of Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe did warn you \u2014 do not fly in our sky,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

But the \u201cdefense minister\u201d mistook what he thought was a Ukrainian transport plane.<\/strong> Not knowing the reality of the situation, he posted, \u201c\u201ca plane has just been downed somewhere around Torez, it lays there behind the \u2018Progress\u2019 mine,\u201d referring to the mining town of some 80,000 people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd here is the video proving another \u2018bird\u2019 falling down,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe bird went down behind a slagheap, not in a residential district. So no peaceful people were injured.<\/p>\n

Once Girkin found out the truth of the situation \u2013 that it was actually a commercial Malaysia airlines jetliner carrying 295 innocent lives \u2013 he deleted his post.<\/p>\n

The pro-Russian militants have been sparring with Ukraine for the past few months, having shot down quite a few military planes.<\/p>\n

Source AP<\/em>
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