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Russia's Almaz-Antey arms company admitted MH17 could have been shot down due to operator error
Malaysia Airline’s Flight MH17 may have crashed due to an operator error of the Buk anti-aircraft. This was reported by the adviser to the chief designer of Russia's state-owned Almaz-Antey, Mikhail Malyshevsky.
According to him, the probability of a Buk missile system operator’s error cannot be ruled out.
“There may be a lot of different reasons for this. It could have happened due to poor crew training, or some wrong baseline data, possibly even some tragic mistakes. For example, a …
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Ukraine is ready for negotiations on 'Yanukovych's debt'
Ukraine is confident of its legal position in the court dispute with the Russian Federation in England regarding a $3 billion debt on Eurobonds; however, is still open to the possibility of a peaceful settlement of the dispute, if acceptable grounds are met. This was the report from the Ministry of Finance as told to Interfax-Ukraine when asked to comment on the statement regarding the postponement of the Russian-Ukrainian meeting on this issue that was expected to take place in Washington.
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Ten people reported missing in the Crimea, believed to be on political and ethnic grounds
According to a statement issued by the press service of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, ten people are reported missing on political or ethnic grounds in the Crimea.
“The lack of responsibility and reparations for victims nourishes impunity,” the statement stresses. As noted in the report, the right to peaceful assembly is restricted in the Crimea, and law enforcement authorities continue to examine and persecute people for expressing their opinions, which are wrongfully …
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Ukraine acknowledges it has lost nearly all Soviet-era mortars during the war in the Donbas
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry claimed that during the fighting in the Donbas, they used up nearly their entire stockpile of mortar weapons, which Ukraine had kept since Soviet times.
According to UNIAN, this was reported by the Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykola Shevtsov at a briefing in Kyiv. "The question of supplying our troops with exactly this kind of weapon is the most urgent,” he said “as during the aggressive hostilities we lost almost our entire arsenal of …
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Former LPR official doubts there was a coup attempt in the separatist republic
One of the Russian coordinators in the occupied Donbas, Alexander Zhuchkovsky, has accused the leader of the so-called Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Igor Plotnitsky, of lying and commented on the situation regarding an attempted “coup d’etat.” He made this statement on his page on Vkontakte [Russian social network].
He noted that he has not dealt with the LPR for more than a year and does not interfere in what happens there, but has a view of the situation.
According to Zhuchkovsky, there …