Courtesy of Mish.
For most, the shoot-down of flight MH-17 over Ukraine is a forgotten memory. Western media has continually trumped up one of three stories.
- Russian-backed rebels did it
- Russia did it
- Russian-backed rebels did it with Russia’s help
The extent to which Western media fabricated all sorts of lies to make those claims is still not widely known or understood.
Reader Jacob Dreizin, a US citizen who speaks and reads Russian, and who works for the US government (but speaks only for himself), just recently decided to review some video footage and translations offered by Time Magazine on July 17: Russia Is Blocking Justice for the Victims of Flight 17.
Dreizin emailed Time about factual errors in the article a few days ago. He sent this letter to Time.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have found a serious factual error—in fact, a complete fabrication—in your July 17, 2015 piece titled How Russia Is Blocking Justice for the Victims of Flight 17, which is posted here:
http://time.com/3963346/mh17-malaysia-airlines-flight-17-russia-ukraine/
In the piece, your author, Simon Shuster, states as follows:
On the day of the tragedy, the Ukrainian State Security Service, which is known as the SBU, released what it claimed to be an intercepted phone conversation between Kozitsyn and one of his fighters. According to the SBU’s recording, the fighter reports to Kozitsyn that they have shot down a civilian plane by mistake. “There’s a whole sea of corpses, women and children,” the fighter says. The voice identified as that of Kozitsyn does not seem moved by this information. “They shouldn’t have been flying,” the voice says. “There’s a war going on here.”
I am a native Russian speaker and I have listened to this recording, which commences at around 1:50 at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCMFhiqp9R0
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