tags: mh17, russia, ukraine, rebel, terrorist
July 23, 2014 Pro-Russian Rebel Commander Admits Terrorists Had BUK Missiles Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok Battalion, acknowledged for the first time since continual denials since the airliner was brought down in eastern Ukraine on Thursday that the rebels did possess the BUK missile system and said it could have been sent back subsequently to remove proof of its presence. He said the missile firing was provoked by government air strikes in the area. He was told that a BUK was under the flag of a group from Luhansk, one of two rebel provinces. "At the moment the civilian plane flew overhead, they launched air strikes. Even if there was a BUK, and even if the BUK was used, Ukraine did everything to ensure that a civilian aircraft was shot down." Khodakovsky is one of the few major rebel commanders in Donetsk who actually hails from Ukraine rather than Russia.
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