Reuters  —  Judges at the top UN court on Wednesday found that Russia violated elements of a UN anti-terrorism treaty, but declined to rule on allegations brought by Kyiv that Moscow was responsible for the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

“This is the first time that officially, legally Russia is called a violator of international law,” he told journalists after the ruling.

Ukraine had filed the lawsuit at the ICJ, also known as the World Court, in 2017, accusing Russia of violating an anti-terrorism treaty by funding pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

The 16-judge panel ordered Russia to investigate any plausible allegations of terrorism financing but turned down a request by Kyiv for reparations. "

https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/166/166-20240131-sum-01-00-en.pdf

Summary 2024/2
31 January 2024
Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing
of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russian Federation)
Summary of the Judgment of 31 January 2024

https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/182/182-20240202-sum-01-00-en.pdf

Summary 2024/3
2 February 2024

Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation: 32 States intervening)
Summary of the Judgment of 2 February 2024
 

Cargo aircraft shot down

It all began last month when it emerged that three days before the shooting down of Flight MH17 the authorities in Kiev summoned diplomats from a range of “friendly countries” to warn them a Ukrainian air force Antonov An-26 cargo aircraft had been shot down by separatists in eastern Ukraine .

This was significant for three reasons: because it was the first time that air traffic over Ukraine had been targeted; because the jet was flying at 21,325 feet; and because it was hit by a missile “more powerful” than a shoulder-launched missile – all of which rang alarm bells.

On the day of the An-26 crash, one western analyst on the ground in Ukraine described the attack as “potentially a game-changer”. Until then it had been understood the rebels did not have missiles capable of hitting a high-flying jet. That being so, the Kiev briefing was clearly important. A Dutch diplomat duly attended, and his assessment of the information shared there was sent immediately through the normal diplomatic channels to various government ministries in The Hague.

What happened then? The answer, to the understandable dismay of the MH17 relatives, appears to be “not much” – perhaps even nothing.

Risk warning

Asked if the government had warned the appropriate airlines about the increased risk of using Ukrainian airspace after the An-26 attack, foreign minister

Bert Koenders

and justice minister

Ivo Opstelten

replied it had not.

Their reasoning, they told deputies in a written statement, had been that in their view the purpose of the Kiev briefing was to alert the international community to Russian “meddling” in Ukraine – rather than to warn specifically about the increased danger in Ukrainian air space.

“The bringing down of a Ukrainian aircraft earlier in the day was mentioned by the Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs only as an example of an escalation in the conflict, and Russia’s role in it,” they said.

Asked if he would publish the diplomat’s report of the Kiev briefing, Koenders said it had not been an actual report, as such, more “diplomatic traffic”. Publishing it would set a damaging precedent.

Scenting blood, the opposition then switched their attention to the prime minister, formally requesting him to publish the diplomat’s report or assessment, in whatever form it was made. In a decision certain to fuel the conspiracy theories, Rutte has refused.

It won't end there, of course. Already, Christian Democrat deputy Pieter Omtzigt has complained that all the explanations so far have been insufficient – and in the absence of the diplomat's report, he is indisputably correct.

“It is clear that multiple ministries were aware of the security situation,” he told parliament. “I want to know exactly what information was shared – and with whom.”

Having got nowhere with the politicians, for the time being, the focus has switched now to the security services – whose regulator has waded in, saying he wants clarity on what they knew, if anything; who they told, if anyone; and what transpired, if anything.

It would be ironic indeed if the “spooks” were to emerge as the champions of Dutch transparency. "

***

https://flb.ru/info/63097.html

«To destroy the facts of conducting a special operation»

4 «цiлком таемнiх» («top secret») documents of the Security Service of Ukraine. At the disposal of the newspaper “Sovershenno sekretno” were copies of secret documents of the Security Service of Ukraine on the conduct of a special operation to destroy the evidence of mass murder in the sky over the Donbass on July 17, 2014. The newspaper “Sovershenno sekretno” initiates an investigation “We uncover a secret of Boeing MH17 wreckage”. The operation of the Security Service of Ukraine “Clearing”. Part 1

The original оf the text: «Уничтожить факты проведения специальной операции

«To carry out special measures to destroy the facts of a special operation».

- «To carry out effective preventive measures among witnesses of special operations on July 17, 2014»

- «Identify and detain witnesses of the civil aircraft explosion».

- «To regroup the servicemen who discharged of their official duties in the territory of the village Grabovo, Donetsk region».

- «As part of a special operation to destroy all materials that indicate the presence of combat aircraft having carried out combat missions in the specified area on July 17, 2014».

SOURCE OF PHOTOCOPIES

To distrust own eyes - this was an unconscious desire when we first saw photocopies of these documents. Most of them, as judged by the holes of paper punch, were extracted from some folders and photographed. Orders, encrypted telegrams, plans and decrees are written on the official trident-crowned letterhead of "Служба Безпеки Украiни”, that is the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), as well as on ordinary sheets of A4. Signatures, resolutions, seals. The secret bureaucracy of the Ukrainian "безпеки" have fallen into our hands which is the TNT equivalent explosion of the international scandal that should bring the President of Ukraine Poroshenko and his generals to the dock of the tribunal at the Hague as war criminals.

The person who gave us these documents always appeared out of nowhere and disappeared into nowhere. During our several meetings in the course of a month he changed about five phone SIM cards and changed his email address three times. When asked why he turned to us, he replied that he knows and respects us as journalists of the newspaper "Sovershenno sekretno". When asked who he is and how he managed to get the secret documents of the SBU, he answered something like this: "This is an intermediate result of the long hard work. In Ukraine I have some mates who are sick and tired of setting them up and walking all over them. These men are two-faced, on the one hand they want these bastards get deserts, on the other hand, they want a small safety net - they offer to buy documents out." At the mention of money we certainly became sad. The possibilities of our editorial office and our partner Agency for Federal Investigations FLB.ru are rather modest. "Believe me, I personally just want the SBU’s bastards get deserts."

Copies of the documents spoke for themselves. Later we gave them for examination to one of the old stager of the Lubyanka and he noted that they had been drawn up according to all the rules of records management maid as far back as the KGB of the USSR, whose school was completed by many employees of the security service of Ukraine. Of course the authenticity of these documents should be checked not by journalists or even security officials-old stagers; this is a business for investigators who must study not the photocopies but the originals of orders and decrees completely without deletions made in our case apparently for operative purposes and for security reasons. And it is important for us that finally three years after the plane crash the names of real witnesses and probably real executors of this shooting up begin to emerge. Therefore today you have the opportunity to read and see copies of 4 completely criminal orders of the Security Service of Ukraine.

And that's why - there is no other way out - the newspaper "Sovershenno sekretno" announces a public investigation "“We uncover a secret of Boeing MH17 wreckage ". Only with your help we can get other criminal orders, encrypted telegrams and decrees. The international commission for investigation of the Malaysian Boeing 777 crash in the Netherlands does not want to work, distorts and classifies the investigation results, let's all together help to know or at least get closer to the truth. The truth is about how 298 people died.

Only these four photocopies allow us to draw three preliminary crushing conclusions. The first conclusion is: the new Kiev authorities is responsible for the shooting up of the Malaysian Boeing 777 MH17 flight – President Poroshenko and his generals hide the truth and lie for 3 years already. The second conclusion is: Ukraine's military aviation is involved in this resonant plane crash. The third conclusion is: in order to cover the traces of a monstrous crime, from the end of July 2014 the SBU conducted special measures to destroy the facts of the special operation and all materials that indicate the presence of combat aircraft having carried out combat missions on July 17, 2014».

Dozens of people were involved in this special operation of downing the aircraft and the subsequent "clearing", there were hundreds of unwitting witnesses from military personnel of the Ukrainian army. We hope that sooner or later they will speak.

In the meantime we expect that within the next month or one and a half we will be able to obtain other orders from the depths of the Ukrainian "безпеки" and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense with your help, which will point to the real culprit of the MH17 flight wreckage in the air.

SPECIAL OPERATION OF THE SBU FOR LIQUIDATION OF EVIDENCE


We placed secret documents of the SBU, in which orders are given to conduct a special operation to destroy the evidence of a Boeing air crash, in chronological order. Photocopies of originals are accompanied by a translation into Russian. According to the mention in one of the orders, the start of the operation "clearing" was kicked three days after the shooting up of the aircraft - July 20, 2014. It was on this day when the first deputy head of the SBU Colonel General V.S. Gritsak approved the "Plan for the main organizational, counterintelligence and special investigation measures of the DKR SBU dated 20.07.2014 No. 1 / 1-837." (DKR is counterintelligence department of the SBU. We do not have this Gritsak’s plan yet, but hope that we will have it – FLB)

Document No. 1

Top Secret
(without supplement - for official
use only)
Copy №1

Personally
To Head of Office KRP
DKR SBU
Kiev
(KRP DKR is Office of counterintelligence search of
counterintelligence department – FLB)

Stamp: Security Service of Ukraine
Ref. No. 1/978 dated 22.07.2014

Resolution: <...> As part of the ATO in this territory of the Lugansk region I ask you to transfer the materials to the DKR SBU, Kiev.

V. Gritsak, 26.07.2014

Regarding the filing a case of the counterintelligence investigation "Katsap"

Based on the order of the Security Service of Ukraine from 02.09.2003 No. 0012 and the direction of the Head of SBU dated 05.08.2009 No. 3/1855 "On certain problem issues in the organization of work on counterintelligence cases" we inform that on July 22, 2014 regarding a citizen of Ukraine, the head of one of the state enterprises, the case of the counterintelligence investigation "Katsap" No. 1/1044 with the classification "intelligence activity of special services of foreign states, organizations, groups of persons against Ukraine" was filed by the counterintelligence department of the Security Service of Ukraine in Lugansk region. The reason for the initiating the SKP was the operational data obtained during the counterintelligence investigation in the problem areas of the Lugansk region, which indicates the presence of signs of involvement in the special services of RF and the destruction of the state system of Ukraine in the behavior and actions of the object.

From persons who confidentially cooperate with the Security Council of Ukraine, information on the presence of regular contacts of “Katsap” with representatives of the terrorist organization LNR was received. Namely the object periodically contacts <…>

In addition, “Katsap” conducts talks with representatives of the mass media of foreign countries (RF, the European Union) in which he indicates that he is a direct witness and has evidence of law violations by the Ukrainian army and aviation, namely of the shooting up of the civil aircraft in the sky 17.07.2014.

In daily activities he uses conspiracy methods, possibly has several national passports, periodically changes addresses of stay. These features of the behavior of the object further indicate his possible involvement in the national security services.

"Katsap" has stable connections among representatives of local authorities, law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies of the region and accordingly has real opportunities to influence the environment and to obtain diverse intelligence information.

The information received indicates that "Katsap" probably owns information that can cause damage to the state and be used by the Russian national special service.

Amendment:
1. Plan of counterintelligence measures for SKP “Katsap” No. 1/1044, c/c No. 1, Identification No. 1/4 -2948 from 22.07.2014, secret, in 3 (three) sheets.

Head of Office SBU
for Lugansk region
colonel М. Grek «22» July 2014

As you can see, one high-ranking Ukrainian state official has come in view of officers of the Office SBU for Lugansk region conducting a special operation. A week after the Boeing wreckage, on July 22, the operational case "Katsap" was filed against him. As it follows from this document "Katsap" interested "безпеку" mainly because he "is a direct witness and has evidence of law violations by the Ukrainian army and aviation, namely of the shooting up of the civil aircraft in the sky 17.07.2014". We do not know yet what happened to this witness.

Document No. 2

Office KRP DKP SBU
Urgent Top Secret
(urgency mark) (classification)

Outgoing encrypted telegram No. 6130

From: Kiev, UKRP SBU
Destination: Lugansk
Recipient: Head of Office SBU for Lugansk region
Mr. Grek М.


Regarding the detention of witnesses
(in addition to ET No. 6138 from 24.07.2014)

In pursuance of the instructions of Head of the SBU "on the identification and detention of witnesses" of the incident occurred on July 17, 2014, near village Grabovo, Donetsk region, operative support of materials regarding a special operation in the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions is carried out by the Office KRP DKR .

It has been established that there are actually witnesses of the shooting up of the civil aircraft, some persons are identified and detained but at the same time the Office has received data that one of the servicemen who is located in the territory of the Lugansk region has videotaped this event.

In this regard, we ask you to identify and detain a person from among the military personnel who made a photo-video recording of the event.

In the future we ask you to report on the situation directly to the UKRP DKR of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Sincerely,
Head of department No. 4 UKRP
DKR SB of Ukraine

colonel Kalchenko R.

The signature is correct cap. Vaskov S.S.
Subscription No. 073 24.07.2014

Executor Arrived at 17.00 24.07.2014
Vaskov S.S. Encrypted at 17.00 24.07.2014
UKRP _________________________________
(head department) (Signature of encrypting person)
Tel. No. 7-21 Special notebook No. 11 Page No. 27


As you remember some witnesses of the "shooting up of the civil craft" - inhabitants of settlements in the area of the plane crash - were shown by Russian mass media, on the day of the tragedy the locals heard explosions or saw fighters. But does anyone know about the fate of the Ukrainian soldier who took pictures of the attack of the military aircraft VSU against the Boeing flight MH17 and who was searched for by the Ukrainian counterintelligence on July 24? As our operational source told us - this man was called Vyacheslav, he had the rank of sergeant, served in one of the mortar element of ATO. Vyacheslav made photos of "shooting up of the civil craft" by using his smartphone Apple iPhone 4. (We hope to get these pictures - Ed.)

We speak about him in the past tense as the sergeant died and died under strange circumstances. Vyacheslav was shot by a sniper when he was out of the combat zone. At the same time Vyacheslav was the only junior rank among the senior officers surrounding him. His personal effects were immediately taken away by SBU officers, but the day before, as our source said, Vyacheslav managed to transfer photos to his acquaintance - commander of the mortar element of the military unit A1556, warrant officer Andrei Vladimirovich Drozd. (VRIO of commander of the m/u A1556 - Lieutenant Colonel I. Stakhiv, in the Russian transcription he most likely - Stakhov).

According to the same information, warrant officer Drozd as the commander of the mortar element received an order for uninterrupted mortar fire against the area where the Boeing fell. In addition, it is known that for some time he was in the hospital due to a wound in the leg.

We introduce all these details because warrant officer Andrei Drozd is a valuable witness and we hope very much that "preventive work" will not carried out with him, the same that was probably done with his colleague Vyacheslav killed by a sniper bullet. Lieutenant Colonel I. Stakhiv is also a valuable witness.

Document No. 3

Stamp: Top secret
Security Service of Ukraine Copy No. 1
Office of Inspector General
Ref. No. 1/1038
24.07.2014

APPROVED BY
First deputy head
of the Security Service of Ukraine
Colonel General V.S. Gritsak
July 24, 2014

Addition
to the Plan for the main organizational, counterintelligence and special investigation measures of the Counterintelligence Department (site Lugansk city) of the SBU and special forces units ATO for the 2nd half of 2014.

1. Counteraction against intelligence activity
1.1 Together with DVKR (the Department of Military Counterintelligence – Ed.) of the SBU to establish (the 3rd quarter) intelligence centers of objects in the border territory that conduct technical and human intelligence against Ukraine, to ensure (during the 3rd quarter) the study of their personnel during the possible visit of Ukraine.
Ex: DKR SBU, DVKR SBU.
I.c.: Kondratyuk V.V.

1.2 Within the framework of the ATO in cooperation with the DKR SBU to carry out (during the 3rd quarter) technical penetration into the state bodies of the neighboring state (DNR), from whose position intelligence activities against Ukraine is being conducted.
Ex: DKR SBU, DVKR SBU.
I.c.: Kondratyuk V.V.

2. Blocking of intelligence actions of special services of RF, including carried out from the position of special services of the self-appointed DNR.

In cooperation with DVKR SBU for detection, documentation and termination of the intelligence activities of the Federal Security Service, which act from the positions of the armed units DNR against Ukraine, to enter (the 2nd half of year) into the personnel and agent network of the state security bodies DNR on the basis of revealed intelligence measures of the named foreign special service.
Ex: DKR SBU, DVKR SBU.
I.c.: Kondratyuk V.V.

3. In the line of counteracting the intelligence activity of the special services of RF.

Together with DBKR SBU to document and terminate (during the year) the activities of the special services of RF that operate under the cover of the military forces DNR as well as state and non-governmental structures that are located on the territory of Ukraine, but have the influence of the military forces of the special services of RF from the positions of DNR.
Ex: DKR SBU, DVKR SBU.
I.c.: Kondratyuk V.V.

4. In the line of counterintelligence protection in relation to state special operations conducted within the framework of the ATO in the interests of the state, as well as counterintelligence measures of foreign special services, prevention of actions on their part to the detriment of our state.

Together with DKR SBU, DVKR SBU, special divisions of the ATO for timely detection, prevention and termination of intelligence activities of foreign special services in the areas of conducting special operations to ensure the monitoring a foreign presence (Torez city, village Grabovo). Within the framework of the ATO to conduct special measures to destroy the facts of conducting the special operation. To obtain information about the presence of possible witnesses from among the residents of the district, the military and others. To use effective preventive measures.
Ex: DKR SBU, DVKR SBU.
I.c.: Kondratyuk V.V.

5. In the line of counteraction to the special services of RF.

Together with DKR SBU and DVKR SBU to identify (the 3rd quarter) persons from military personnel carrying out the transfer of information protected by the state, to receive the facts of their cooperation with representatives of the DNR residency. Based on the facts to detain them with further bringing to criminal responsibility.
Ex: DKR SBU, DVKR SBU.
I.c.: Kondratyuk V.V.
<…>

V. Kondratyuk
«24» July 2014



As you see in this secret document, the first deputy of the SBU and the head of the Anti-Terrorist Center of the SBU Colonel-General Vasily Gritsak directly and frankly gives the command "Attack" to carry out "special measures to destroy the facts of the special operation." And against witnesses - residents of the district, the military and others suggests "using effective preventive measures". Apparently, such measures were experienced by sergeant Vyacheslav killed by a sniper?

Document No. 4

Letterhead:
Security Service of Ukraine Top secret
Office of Inspector General Copy No.1
28.07.2014 No. о/l-147

Personally
To Head of Department KR
<…>


Concerning the conduct of special operations

In pursuance of the instructions and orders of the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, in accordance with the plan for the implementation of special operations conducted within the framework of the ATO in the territory of the Donetsk region (Grabovo village) I ask you to instruct the heads of the units of the Office of SBU in the Donetsk region and special units of the armed forces of Ukraine about destruction of any materials that indicate law violations by representatives of the armed forces of Ukraine.

In addition according to the plan of the main organizational, KR and ORZ (counterintelligence and special investigation measures - Ed.) DKR SB of Ukraine from 20.07.2014 No. 1 / 1-837 approved by the First Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Colonel General Gritsak V. S. to implement:

- effective preventive measures among the witnesses of the special operation on July 17, 2014 (to identify and detain witnesses of civil aircraft explosion);

- to regroup the servicemen who discharged of their official duties in the territory of the village Grabovo, Donetsk region;

- as part of a special operation to destroy all materials that indicate the presence of combat aircraft and carrying out combat missions in the specified area on July 17, 2014;

- to carry out preventive measures and rotation of servicemen of the air squadron, who made flights in the specified area. In particular, the servicemen of the Aviation Brigade No. A-4104, Chuguev city, Kharkov region.
<…>

Head of the Office of Inspector General А. Kalyuzhnyak

____________________________________________________

«To destroy all materials indicated the presence of combat aircraft and carrying out combat missions in the specified area on July 17, 2014». Signature. Seal. Is it not a personally signed verdict for cynical concealment, covering traces of one of the most terrible crimes of the 21st century?

The Office of Inspector General is the structural unit having the highest position in the hierarchy of the Security Service of Ukraine. This Office is entrusted with overseeing the implementation of all significant orders of the SBU leadership. Orders and decrees of the Office are binding. The Head of the Office of Inspector General, General Kalyuzhnyak submitted directly to Head of the SBU Valentin Nalivaichenko. And Nalivaichenko - to President Poroshenko.

THE MAIN EXECUTORS OF THE “CLEARING”

It is not incurious to look if not in the eyes then on the biography of those high-ranking officials of the SBU who gave these criminal orders.

Gritsak Vasily Sergeevich (Грицак Василь Сергійович) - 1967 year of birth. After the service rendered to Petr Poroshenko in destroying the evidence testified about the fighters carried out the combat mission on July 17, 2014 near the village of Grabovo, the career of Vasily Gritsak was on the rise more sharply. On July 2, 2015, he was appointed Head of the SBU in place of Nalivaichenko. On March 25, 2016 he obtained the rank of General of Ukrainian Army.

Gritsak began the service in 1990 in the organs of the KGB of the USSR in the rank of sergeant. Since then, he grew up to the head of the Main Office of the SBU for the Kiev city and the Kiev region and further in December 2009 he was appointed the first deputy Head of the SBU - the head of the Main Office "K" (anti-corruption). In March 2010 Gritsak was unexpectedly dismissed from the SBU but without exception from muster. For four years he headed the body guard of the oligarch-confectioner Petr Poroshenko. When Poroshenko became president, on July 7, 2014 the lifeguard Gritsak was returned to the SBU. Gritsak was in the post of first deputy head of the SBU and the head of the Anti-Terrorist Center at the SBU when he solved the problem of Boeing. As it is noted by "RBC-Ukraine", General Gritsak is considered "one hundred percent man of President Poroshenko".

Kalyuzhnyak Anatoly (Анатолій Калюжняк) - 1962 year of birth. Head of the Office of Inspector General of the SBU. The author of the unforgettable idea of "effective preventive measures" against witnesses. He was born in Khmelnitsky region, in 1988 he graduated from the Kharkov Law Institute. In 1990 he joined the KGB of the USSR. He held the post of deputy head of the anti-corruption department of the Khmelnitsky regional office of the USB. In 2005 in the rank of colonel he became the head of the Kremenchug office of the SBU.

In April 2012 he was appointed deputy head of the main office "K" of the SBU. In early 2014, Kalyuzhnyak was deputy head of the Office of Inspector General of the SBU. He was in this position when he gave testimony at a sitting of the provisional investigative commission of the Verkhovnaya Rada in April 2014 regarding the mass murder on Maydan. He is married. He has two children. He will have something to tell the children.

Kondratyuk Valiry Vitalyevich (Кондратюк Валерій Віталійович) - 1970 year of birth. Probably most of all benefits as result of the special operation (after Gritsuk) were received by the head of the counter-intelligence department of the SBU General Kondratyuk. It was him who was instructed in the framework of the ATO "to conduct special measures to destroy the facts of the special operation." A year after the "clearing" on July 27, 2015 he was appointed the head of the Main Intelligence Office of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense throw the presidential decree. And a year later, on October 15, 2016, Poroshenko made Kondratyuk to the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration.

Valery Kondratyuk graduated from the Kiev higher combined arms command school named after M.V. Frunze in 1991. He served in the SBU until he was kicked away. As the Ukrainian journalist Vladimir Boyko said Kondratyuk was exposed by the Internal Security Office of the SBU as an agent of the USA special services. However, after the events on Maidan he was returned to the SBU (the fact that was early considered as betrayal, now is an honorary entry in the biography. Let’s remember that Gritsak was also cleared out of the counterintelligence agents in 2010, and now he is even the head of the SBU.)

Grek Mikhail. This is the colonel who organized a round-up against "Katsap" - the witness who has evidence of law violation by the Ukrainian army and aviation, namely the shooting up of the civilian aircraft."

Head of the Verkhovnaya Rada Aleksandr Turchinov appointed him to the head of the Office SBU for the Lugansk region throw his Decree No. 413/2014 from April 15, 2014. Heretofore Grek worked as deputy head of the Office SBU for the Lvov region. We repeat that we do not know the destiny of "Katsap" yet.

Kalchenko R. – Colonel, Head of department No. 4 UKRP DKR SB of Ukraine
(Office of Counterintelligence Search of the Counter-Intelligence Department). The person who sent all his work-related zeal to "the identification and detention of witnesses of the shooting up of the civil aircraft". We have a little information about Colonel Kalchenko. But it is interesting that after the "Boeing" he apparently managed to show up in another "Hague" case. In September 2014, Kalchenko was mentioned among persons involved in the organization of the illegal prison of the SBU (it is located near Kiev, in the territory of the penal battalion of the military unit. M/u is located near Vodokanal, near the military unit there is a large shooting range).

We recall that in May 2016 the Report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights appeared suggested that the SBU is involved in unlawful detention of people, cruel treatment against them and even tortures. The report noted the use of secret places of detention by Ukrainian secret services in which prisoners are subjected to bullying and humiliation. On May 25, 2016 the delegation of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture suspended its work on the territory of Ukraine, the reason was the failure of the SBU to provide the UN representatives access to places of detention.

AT NAMELESS HEIGHT

The Malaysian Boeing 777-2H6ER board 9M-MRD performed the daily flight MH17 Amsterdam-Kuala-Lumpur disappeared from the radar screens at 48°02'25" north latitude and 38°46'22" east longitude - this is approximately 50 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border, not far from the small town Torez. The catastrophe occurred on July 17, 2014, at 16:20 Kiev time or 17:20 Moscow time. The liner had to cross the Russian border approximately at 17:25 MSK.

The Ukrainian Independent News Agency (UNIAN) was one of the first mass media reported the information about the accident. It should be noted that the owner of UNIAN the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky financed the flight service of Dnepropetrovsk which “guided” Boeing until the last second of the flight. The establishment of Kolomoisky's control over all flight services in southeastern Ukraine began to occur after the arrival in Kiev in April 2014 of CIA director John Brennan. A month before the tragedy there was a seizure of "Ukr Avia Ru", a criminal case was opened against the chief dispatcher of Ukraine Yury Chernichenko. Poroshenko elected as president signs an order to dismiss Chernichenko the next day.

The first report on the plane crash was made at 18:12 (Kiev time) with reference to information in social networks: "According to recent reports of the "Information Resistance" to the north of Torez a passenger airplane fell. At 16:20 communications disappeared between the ground services in Kiev and Rostov with the Malaysia Airlines airliner performed the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight. "

The group "Information Resistance" is in fact the name of the virtual page of blogger Dmitry Timchuk, a former carrier soldier of Ukraine worked for the SBU. (Now Timchuk is a deputy of the Verkhovnaya Rada.) At 18:37 the group "Information Resistance" reported that "security officials from the ATO forces do not have air defense facilities in the area of the operation."

At 18:47 minutes on the official website of the president of Ukraine appears the statement of Petr Poroshenko, it was in particular said: "...We emphasize that the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not take any actions to fire targets in the air."

At 21:12 UNIAN reports with a new link to Timchuk's blog: "According to the recent reports of the group "Information Resistance" a column of terrorists was noted today at about 13:30 in the area of settlement Snezhnoe. The column consisted of 3 tanks, 2 armored personnel carriers, a truck with hit men and a truck with a large-caliber machine gun installed. And also - an automobile tractor with a carriage on which the air defense system "Buk" was transported. The column moved in the direction of settlement Dmitrovka."

And already at 23:46 UNIAN quotes the American The Wall Street Journal: "Intelligence service of USA confirms that the Malaysian airplane was shot down by a ground-to-air missile.” So the story about the Russian "Buk" began to walk the world...

... The aircraft wreckage was scattered on an area of about 50 square km, on a length of more than 10 km and a width of 5 km. The search area included the settlements Moskovskoe, Rassypnoe, Grabovo, Stryukovo and Grabovskoye water storage reservoir. Not far from the Rasypnoye a forebody was found, near Grabovo - the central and tail sections. Most of the wreckage was about 8.5 km from the last point recorded by radars. 298 people died, of them 283 passengers: citizens of Netherlands - 193, Malaysia - 43, Australia - 27, Indonesia - 12, Great Britain - 10, Germany - 4, Belgium - 4, Philippines - 3, Canada - 1, New Zealand - 1.

… The Ukrainian part ignored the proposal of DNR on the 10-kilometer ceasefire zone around the crash area. (Remember, in particular, the mortar element of warrant officer Andrei Drozd, military unit A1556)

... The first operation for removing the aircraft wreckage began only on November 4, 2014. Almost half a year “Grads”, mortars and howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine non-stop hammered a 50-kilometer space on which the remains of the airliner were scattered or more accurately material evidence of the killing of three hundred people.
Was the operation of the SBU "Clearing" successful? We do not think so. The investigation of the newspaper "Soverschenno sekretno" "We uncover a secret of Boeing MH17 wreckage" continues.


The editorial office of the newspaper "Soverschenno sekretno" thanks the Agency for Federal Investigations FLB.ru for its assistance in preparing the publicatio

Sergey Sokolov, Alexey Chelnokov 22.05.2017 *** https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/kiev-warning-leaves-trail-of-questions-over-flight-mh17-for-dutch-pm-1.2097384   " Kiev warning leaves trail of questions over Flight MH17 for Dutch PM   Dutch unwillingness to set out details of warning has led to growing suspicion     Conspiracy theories: the West says the killers were Russian-backed separatists while Moscow claims the missile was fired by Ukrainian air force. Photograph: Koen Van Weel/EPA Peter Cluskey Tue Feb 10 2015 - 01:00   Who knew what and when? The answers to those questions have turned many a chain of what seemed at first to be chaotic events into that worst nightmare of governments: an incipient conspiracy theory. Such is the danger with the downing of Flight MH17.   The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine on July 17th last with the loss of all 298 passengers and crew, en route to Kuala Lumpur. It was an unspeakable tragedy that nobody, bar the culprits, could have seen coming – or prevented.   But just how true is that? There will always be conspiracy theories that feed off catastrophes. In this case there has been no shortage of geopolitical controversy. The West says the killers were Russian- backed separatists. Moscow claims a Ukrainian air force jet fired the fatal missile.   Even the international investigation being led by the Dutch safety board has been called into question, specifically on the length of time it is taking and the fact that its preliminary report – inexplicably, in the view of many angry relatives – apportioned no blame.   Typically though, the problem for Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has come from another quarter – and the apparent confusion and a patent unwillingness to put all the information on the table have done nothing to dampen an ominous trickle of smoke.   Cargo aircraft shot down It all began last month when it emerged that three days before the shooting down of Flight MH17 the authorities in Kiev summoned diplomats from a range of “friendly countries” to warn them a Ukrainian air force Antonov An-26 cargo aircraft had been shot down by separatists in eastern Ukraine . This was significant for three reasons: because it was the first time that air traffic over Ukraine had been targeted; because the jet was flying at 21,325 feet; and because it was hit by a missile “more powerful” than a shoulder-launched missile – all of which rang alarm bells. On the day of the An-26 crash, one western analyst on the ground in Ukraine described the attack as “potentially a game-changer”. Until then it had been understood the rebels did not have missiles capable of hitting a high-flying jet. That being so, the Kiev briefing was clearly important. A Dutch diplomat duly attended, and his assessment of the information shared there was sent immediately through the normal diplomatic channels to various government ministries in The Hague. What happened then? The answer, to the understandable dismay of the MH17 relatives, appears to be “not much” – perhaps even nothing. Risk warning Asked if the government had warned the appropriate airlines about the increased risk of using Ukrainian airspace after the An-26 attack, foreign minister Bert Koenders and justice minister Ivo Opstelten replied it had not. Their reasoning, they told deputies in a written statement, had been that in their view the purpose of the Kiev briefing was to alert the international community to Russian “meddling” in Ukraine – rather than to warn specifically about the increased danger in Ukrainian air space. “The bringing down of a Ukrainian aircraft earlier in the day was mentioned by the Ukrainian minister of foreign affairs only as an example of an escalation in the conflict, and Russia’s role in it,” they said. Asked if he would publish the diplomat’s report of the Kiev briefing, Koenders said it had not been an actual report, as such, more “diplomatic traffic”. Publishing it would set a damaging precedent. Scenting blood, the opposition then switched their attention to the prime minister, formally requesting him to publish the diplomat’s report or assessment, in whatever form it was made. In a decision certain to fuel the conspiracy theories, Rutte has refused. It won't end there, of course. Already, Christian Democrat deputy Pieter Omtzigt has complained that all the explanations so far have been insufficient – and in the absence of the diplomat's report, he is indisputably correct. “It is clear that multiple ministries were aware of the security situation,” he told parliament. “I want to know exactly what information was shared – and with whom.” Having got nowhere with the politicians, for the time being, the focus has switched now to the security services – whose regulator has waded in, saying he wants clarity on what they knew, if anything; who they told, if anyone; and what transpired, if anything. It would be ironic indeed if the “spooks” were to emerge as the champions of Dutch transparency. "
*** https://rurtnews.com/news/359484-bellingcat-mh17-investigation-fake/   Russia-Ukraine conflict   15 Sep, 2016 22:59 HomeWorld News   Russian bloggers slam Bellingcat MH17 investigation for ‘falsified evidence’       A crane moves wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 © Maxim Zmeyev © Reuters A team of Russian citizen-journalists blasted the Bellingcat investigation into the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash over Ukraine in 2014, saying that their Western colleagues took a pro-Kiev stance from the start and relied on fake and falsified evidence. A group of anonymous Russian bloggers, who call themselves the ‘Anti-Fake’ citizen journalists group, have issued a 44-page report in an attempt to establish the truth about the tragedy and avoid the spread of disinformation with regards to the MH17 investigation. The document was released two weeks before a Dutch-led criminal investigation into the into the issue is set to publish its findings. The Russian bloggers criticize the “supposedly unbiased” Bellingcat inquiry by British citizen-journalists, which was based on open sources found on the internet and the already published results of the official Dutch investigation. They said that despite its claims of independence, Bellingcat took a clear pro-Kiev stance from the very beginning.   Read more Russian arms producer challenges media criticism of its MH17 crash inquiry – report One of Bellingcat’s main assertions throughout their investigation was that it is “logical” to assume that Russia would have provided a BUK missile system to anti-government fighters in Ukraine’s Donbass. But the Anti-Fake bloggers responded by saying that the assumption is, on the contrary, illogical. Various modifications of BUK missile launchers are in service in both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries, and are highly sophisticated systems, used to target planes at very high altitudes, which didn’t correspond to the type of threat faced by the rebels, they stressed. “The main attack units, used by the Ukrainian Air Force against self-defense forces in May-July 2014 were Su-25 jets, Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters, which operated against ground targets on small altitude, being in the effective area of Strela-10 short range system,” the group said. “In these circumstances, it’s unjustified to use the expensive and complex BUK system,” the Russian bloggers said, adding that there is also no information of rebels using the BUK system before or after the MH17 incident. The Anti-Fake group also said that British bloggers deliberately based their findings on unreliable evidence due a lack of real data backing the position they chose. The bloggers analyzed a number of documents and photographs, mentioned in the Bellingcat report as proof of Russian guilt, which they have reason to believe are fake or forged. For example, Bellingcat’s only proof of the BUK missile being fired from a rebel-held area – a photo by Pavel Aleynikov, which claims to show a rockets vapor trail near the village of Snezhnoe – is a fake, the authors of the Russian report said, questioning the date and place the picture was taken. They pointed out the fact that the sky is clear in the picture, despite witnesses and Ukrainian weather reports saying that it was cloudy near Snezhnoe on July 17, 2014. Besides it was never proven that the trace in the photo belonged to a rocket fired from a BUK system, they added. In their report, the Anti-Fake bloggers also refuted crowdsourced evidence, which according to Bellingcat detailed the route of a specific BUK system that allegedly downed the Malaysian plane and then returned to Russia. READ MORE: MH17 downing anniversary: Two years of accusations & few facts A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over Ukraine’s Donetsk region on July 17, 2014. The lives of 298 people were lost in the tragedy, which took place in an area where Kiev troops were fighting rebels supporting the establishment of a self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Two years after the crash, the official Dutch investigation ruled that the plane was brought down by a Russian-made BUK air defense system, but didn’t name the responsible side. On Wednesday, a Russian media obtained a statement by BUK producer, Almaz-Antey, in which the company accused Western media, including Bellingcat, of trying to manipulate public opinion and mixing up facts to discredit its own investigation into the issue. You can share this story on social media:   ***   https://rurtnews.com/news/427669-mh17-russia-ukraine-dutch/ " Russia-Ukraine conflict   24 May, 2018 14:07 No Russian missile system ever crossed into Ukraine: MoD rejects Dutch MH17 claims FILE PHOTO. A piece of the wreckage at a crash site of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. © Maxim Zmeyev © Reuters The Russian Defense Ministry has rejected new claims that flight MH17 over Ukraine was downed by a missile from a Russian unit, urging the Dutch-led probe to focus on studying hard facts instead of social media images. “Not a single anti-aircraft missile system of the Russian Armed Forces has ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border,” the defense ministry said in statement. Missile that downed MH17 came from Russian military, unit of origin pinpointed – intl investigators The Russian military raised eyebrows over “the determination of the Dutch-led investigation to justifying its conclusions by solely using images from social networks that have been expertly altered with computer graphic editing tools.” The ministry pointed out that the images used in the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) press conference on Thursday were provided by the Ukrainian special services and had been previously displayed by the infamous British online investigative activist group, Bellingcat. The Dutch-led probe announced that the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in July 2014 came from a Russian military Buk system that crossed into Ukraine and then returned to its base in western Russia. Investigators claim the missile system involved came from “the 53rd Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade based in Kursk in Russia”. The JIT essentially just repeated the conclusion made by Bellingcat a year ago. The alarming part in the JIT probe is that “the Dutch investigators completely ignore and reject the testimony of eyewitnesses from the nearby Ukrainian communities”, according to the Defense Ministry. The testimonies, however, provided essential information “indicating the launch of a missile was carried out from a territory controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” The Russian side said that it provided the international probe with “comprehensive” evidence, including field tests, which “clearly indicate the involvement of the Ukrainian Buk anti-aircraft system units” in the destruction of the plane with 283 passengers and 15 crew members onboard. READ MORE: Accusations and threats, but where are the facts? – Russia challenges West on truth The untampered radar data, which was also passed on by Russia to the Dutch-led investigation, “didn’t establish any aerial objects approaching the passenger Boeing from the western side,” it added. If the international investigating team is really interested in establishing the true culprits of the MH17 crash "its representatives should rely in their statements primarily on facts and witness testimony instead of products by fakemakers from Bellingcat or the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine),” the Defense Ministry concluded. Dutch journalists criticize MH17 probe results after finding ‘many pieces’ still at crash site With Russian military and authorities insisting they had nothing to do with the downing of MH17 on numerous occasions, Bellingcat’s reports have also been refuted by aviation experts, journalists and online activists. Among other things, Bellingcat’s claims that Ukrainian forces had no Buk systems in the conflict area in the east of the country were also overturned by a plethora of Ukrainian media reports, with photos of Kiev’s Buk systems in the region, provided by the online activists. The UK group’s assertion that the Buk missile was fired from an area controlled by the self-defense forces of the People’s Republic of Donetsk was also questioned as they were based on maps from the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian online map services, criticized for lacking accuracy. Meanwhile, the Dutch journalists, who visited the MH17 crash site last year, have raised questions about the thoroughness of the JIT probe as they said a lot of debris from the aircraft, and what they identified as body parts, remained uncollected by investigators. Suspicions were further raised after they had everything collected in eastern Ukraine, along with their cellphones and laptops, confiscated by the Dutch police shortly after returning to the Netherlands.   ***   https://www.sott.net/article/328546-Dutch-experts-refused-to-see-Russian-MH17-experiments-and-analysis-wrong-about-key-parameters-of-crash " Dutch experts refused to see Russian MH17 experiments and analysis, wrong about key parameters of crash RT Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:04 UTC © Dominique Faget/AFPA piece of wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is pictured on July 18, 2014 in Shaktarsk, the day after it crashed.   With two weeks before the results of the official investigation into flight MH17 crash over Ukraine in 2014 are announced, a video has emerged summarizing criticism of the international experts for ignoring the vital findings of experiments by a Russian arms producer. The video, published by the Segodnia.ru website, recalled that as the sole developer and manufacturer of all components of the BUK missile systems, Almaz-Antey held two consecutive experiments to shed the light on what happened to MH17. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777, on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over Ukraine's Donetsk Region on July 17, 2014. The lives of 298 people were lost in the tragedy, which took place in an area where Kiev's troops were battling rebels who are rejecting the coup-imposed central power and battling for the establishment of a self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.   Two years after the crash, the official Dutch investigation ruled that the plane was brought down by a Russian-made BUK air defense system, but didn't name the responsible side. During the test firings, the Russian arms maker attempted to verify or refute the conclusions of the Dutch-led investigation into the tragedy, and revealed that the experts were wrong about the type of rocket that hit the plane, the place from where it was launched and the spot on the jet's cockpit where the explosion took place. The international inquiry, however, ignored Almaz-Antey's findings in an attempt to "make the events fit the already prepared scenario," the company believes. The video alleges that the Dutch investigators pointed to the wrong type of warhead, having found just a couple of butterfly-shaped holes on the cockpit of the Malaysian Boeing downed over Ukraine. Meanwhile, one of the experiments by Almaz-Antey with same payload has produced dozens of such holes, which suggests that the international experts made a mistake in establishing the exact type of rocket that hit the plane. The angle at which Flight MH17 was hit, and therefore the place from where a missile was launched, were also calculated wrongly by the Dutch investigators, Almaz-Antey said. The plane's cockpit was perforated by destructive agents during the Russian test. But on the debris of the downed Malaysian jet there were plenty of non-penetrating scratches, which indicate that the destructive agents traveled on a tangential trajectory.   The video also draws attention to alleged violations and investigation procedure failures during the MH17 inquiry. Not all of the rubble was collected at the crash site by the Dutch experts, it said. While the collected fragments that contradicted the results that the investigation wanted to achieve were showcased separately from the other parts. "But these are the debris that can drastically change the perception of what happened" to the Malaysian airliner, the authors of the video stressed. "