OUCH! UKRAINE ASKED TO INVESTIGATE WHY AIRSPACE WAS NOT SHUT DOWN

Last Sunday I contacted the MH17 JIT and informed them of the Lysenko press conference of 17th July 2014 at which Lysenko admitted that Ukraine had a video of a BUK travelling through Luhansk. I also asked the JIT to check with Ukraine if that video is the same as the one that Ukraine released saying that it was filmed at 0500 on 18th July 2014 (even though Naida said that the BUK that allegedly shot down MH17 was back in Russia by 0200 on 18th July) and was used in their video call for witnesses issued in March this year.

From the response I got from the JIT it sounded like that they were unaware of this possible falsification of evidence and would look into it. And if so then Bellingcat have not informed the JIT of this doubt over their centrepiece...

But now Sergei Kaplin, a member of the ruling party in Ukraine, has asked the Prosecutor General in Ukraine to investigate why Ukraine did not shut down its airspace knowing that BUKs were in the area on 14th July 2014.

Kaplin has sent a letter to Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Socino and the head of the NSDC Oleksandr Turchynov stating the Ukraine goverment was aware surface to air missile systems capable of reaching 14km to 18km altitude were deployed in Eastern Ukraine at July 14.

Civil servants were aware of the danger for civil aviation but refused to close the airspace because closure would mean they did not receive money from the airlines anymore.

Their greed could have resulted in the death of 298 persons.

This news was publised by various Russian news agencies like here in English. Sputnik news published an article in German language on August 25. Ria Novosti published in Russian language here.

Only a very few Ukraine websites published the story. For example 0532.ua here.

Western media did not report about the remarkable initiative of the member of Parliament.

[source : Member of Ukraine ruling party requests prosecutor to investigate failure to close airspace, What happened to flight MH17?, http://www.whathappenedtoflightmh17.com/member-of-ukraine-ruling-party-requests-prosecutor-to-investigate-failure-to-close-airspace/, 26th August 2015]