First published at 19:31 UTC on October 12th, 2020.
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00:00 DAY 1 - JULY 17, 2014
https://www.watchdogmediainstitute.com/2018/12/mh17day1.html
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. As confused first reports came in, Ukraine blamed Russia for the tragedy before the news even broke on CNN. A message falsely attributed to a rebel commander went viral. The head of Ukraine’s intelligence agency presented alleged phone taps of rebels discussing the plane.
John McCain falsely claimed Ukraine was incapable of shooting down the plane. News stations spoke of lower-flying military aircraft the rebels had shot down previously and discussed whether they had capability to reach aircraft at 10,000 feet. With the information war adding to the ground war already raging in Ukraine, the difficult task of retrieving the bodies and wreckage from a war zone began.
07:17 DAY 2 - JULY 18, 2014
https://www.watchdogmediainstitute.com/2019/05/mh17-3-weeks-at-crash-site-day2-jul18.html
OSCE monitors arrived to the crash site where emergency workers were searching for bodies. A UN Security Council session was held to discuss the tragedy. Ukraine produced more alleged phone taps and a video showing a Buk launcher moving “through Krasnodon”.
Fighting continued on several fronts with Grad rockets hitting Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, killing civilians and setting an oil refinery on fire. Many more civilians were killed in a brutal scene in the city of Lugansk.
14:04 DAY 3 - JULY 19, 2014
https://www.watchdogmediainstitute.com/2019/07/mh17-3-weeks-at-crash-site-day3-jul19.html
Bodies were collected by the side of the road, loaded onto trucks and transferred to refrigerated railway cars waiting nearby in Torez. During a briefing on the downing of MH17, Ukrainian Counterintelligence Chief Vitaly Nayda claimed 3 Buk launchers were smuggled back to Russia the day before.
Ukrainian government forces launched Grad rockets at residential areas and a school in Donetsk, as civilians retreated ..
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