Secretary of State John Kerry on evidence of flight MH17 downing by pro-Russian separatists: Here’s what’s currently bothering everybody: Drunken separatists have been piling bodies into trucks and removing them from the site. We only had 75 minutes of access to the site on Friday, three hours of access yesterday, despite Mr. Putin and Russia saying they were going to make every effort to make sure there would be a full and fair investigation, thorough, and the site would be protected. Because of Russia’s linkage to these separatists, they have a greater ability to exert influence, and we need Russia to become part of the solution, not part of the problem. [W]hen you say definitive proof the Russian – the investigation is going to draw conclusions that are “definitive.” What we have is a lot of evidence that points in a direction that raises very, very serious questions, including the fact that a few weeks ago, we have a 150-vehicle convoy coming from Russia, going into the east of Ukraine with tanks, artillery, multiple rocket launchers, armored personnel carriers turned over to the separatists. We know that there are Russian leader – Russians who are leaders of the separatists – some, not all, some. And we know that the Russians have armed the separatists, trained the separatists, support the separatists, and have to date, not publicly called on the separatists to stand down or to be part of this solution. We know that from our own imagery, we see that an SA-11, which is what we have assessed this to be the type of surface-to-air missile because of the altitude – the plane was at 33,000 feet. We know they had an SA-11 right in the vicinity hours before this shoot. The social media has documented this. We know that immediately after the shoot, the social media documented the self-proclaimed defense minister of the People’s Republic of Donetsk, as they call it. He was bragging on the social media about shooting down a transport plane. And then when people learned it was a civilian aircraft, they pulled that off of the social media. We have intercepted voices that have been documented by our people through intelligence as being separatists who are talking to each other about the shoot-down. And we know that – we have a video now of a transporter removing an SA-11 system back into Russia, and it shows a missing missile or so. So there’s enormous amount of evidence, even more evidence than I just documented, that points to the involvement of Russia in providing these systems, training the people on them. We know that the separatists have shot down 12 aircraft in the last couple of months, among them two transport planes. But the evidence is quite enormous. Read the full transcript of Secretary Kerrys interview at state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/07/229509.htm cbsnews/videos/john-kerry-evidence-links-russia-to-rebels-who-shot-down-malaysia-airlines-flight-17/
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:29:32 +0000
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