Pro-Russian militant admits to shooting down of flight MH17, reports Italian daily
The Malaysian InsiderThe Malaysian Insider – Wed, Jul 23, 2014
An Italian newspaper has reported the shocking admission by a pro-Russian militant that his unit had shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 last Thursday.
Corriere della Sera reported today an interview with the militant who had unabashedly said pro-Russian forces mistook the passenger plane for a Ukrainian military one.
The report continued with the militant saying that he and his fellow unit members were told to prepare to engage with Ukrainian forces, who would have bailed out of the suspected military aircraft, once they reached the ground.
“On Thursday afternoon, our commanders ordered us to get into the lorries with our weapons and plenty of ammunition. Perhaps 10 minutes earlier, there had been a huge explosion in the sky.
"‘We’ve just shot down one of the Kiev Fascists’ planes’, they told us, warning us to take care because at least some of the crew had reportedly bailed out," the militant told the Italian daily during an interview at the Torez railway station where the train containing the remains of flight MH17's victims had earlier departed for Kharkiv.
“My men and I were looking for parachutes on the ground and in the trees. All of a sudden, I saw scraps of material in a clearing.
“Underneath, I found the body of a little girl, who can’t have been more than five. She was lying face down. It was awful. That was when I realised it was a civilian plane. Not a military one," he was quoted as saying in the interview.
While refusing to give his name and rank, the 31-year-old militant said he was a member of the Oplot paramilitary unit, which, according to Corriere della Sera, has been tasked with guarding the crash site ever since the plane was brought down last Thursday.
KUALA LUMPUR: Shaikh Mohd Noor Mahmood's wife, Madiani, who met her husband while working on the Kuala Lumpur-Amsterdam route five years ago, she said the trauma began with a phone call from a family member on the night of the disaster.
"Where's Shaikh? Where's Shaikh? Have you heard the news? Switch on the TV."
Confused, Madiani said she asked what was going on. The reply was short: "MH17."
"Yes, Shaikh is on that flight. It's on its way, landing tomorrow at 6 a.m."
"Switch on the TV now."
Watching the first incomplete reports of the loss of the jet, Madiani said she screamed. Later, she sent a desperate text message to her husband's phone: "Where are you? Hope you're ok..I will fetch you. As soon as you land, call me ok? I'll wait for you."
Madiani, 42, who was scheduled to fly to Dubai the day after the MH17 crash, said she still hasn't accepted that her husband is dead.
"I'm still in shock, I still don't believe it 100 percent," she said on the telephone yesterday. "I'm still hoping he's there and miracles can happen. Until I see the body, it's hard to sink in."
"Please pray for my husband."
An hour after news that the flight had crashed, Mariyam Yusoff wrote a prayer on Facebook for the safety of her pilot husband Wan Amran Wan Hussin, the crew and the passengers.
Flight 17 stewardess Dora Shahila Kassim, a divorcee, had asked her mother to buy an outfit for her 15-year-old daughter, the Malaysian Insider reported, citing her sister Darlina Kwan. Dora's Facebook page showed her liking for Candy Crush and Liverpool Football Club, and her support for Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of Malaysian Air Flight 370, which vanished more than four months ago.
"No one could survive," said Nikolai Ivanov, 51, a local resident in Ukraine who says he saw "a fireball" before bodies and wreckage rained down in a local field near the village of Grabovo. "I saw debris falling from the sky. Newspapers and documents came down. The pilot was on the ground, in his uniform and still strapped into his seat."
"The whole world is praying for you mum," her daughter Diyana Yazeera said on Facebook.
Post time 25-7-2014 03:48 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Mulan posted on 25-7-2014 03:44 PM
eh.. u ni pompuan ker?
mati2 ingat lelaki.
Kenapa? Org laki tak blh bg reply back hand kat makcik joyah kepoh ke? Sibuk psl anak org, anak dia sendiri dia tak tgk. Dptlah habuan dari aku for messing up with our family affair
Post time 25-7-2014 03:59 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
Mulan posted on 25-7-2014 03:50 PM
boleh je bagi reply camtu.
tapi kalau u compare dgn cousin tu, tu nasib ppuan yg terpaksa suppo ...
Bukan. Makcik tu dok bising2 suruh adik aku kahwin. Kata ada suami lbh bagus, lbh terjamin, jd anak dara tua hidup susah bla bla bla. Tgk anak dia ada suami tp yg cari mkn tanggung family bukan suami anak dia tp anak pompuan dia. Tak ironi ke tu. Psl tu aku back hand dia
Post time 25-7-2014 01:34 PM
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