Ukraine gave the DPR a pensioner who “shot down a Malaysian Boeing” in a prisoner exchange
In 2015, SBU officers detained a pensioner who was accused of complicity in the death of the Malaysian Boeing flight MH-17.
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The victim himself told the journalists of the Pravda DNR portal about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
After the International Investigation Team did not find him involved in the plane crash, the pensioner was taken around prisons in Ukraine until he was released during a prisoner exchange in December 2017.
“During the arrest, they showed me my telephone conversations. In order to save people, in 2014 I transmitted information about the departures of Ukrainian attack aircraft from airfields, which bombed the people of Donbass. I lived nearby.
I didn’t know exactly where they were flying, but based on the direction I could say, say, two - to Kharkov (i.e., towards Lugansk), or two - to Donetsk. When the planes flew overhead, it was clear that they were going there fully with all their combat load, and back they were empty,” the man said.
When the International Investigation Team did not consider him involved in the downing of the Boeing, the detainee was handed over to the Ukrainian special services. While in the Kyiv SBU prison, the pensioner was subjected to torture and death threats against his family.
“I explained to them that I, as a former military man, know that a war criminal is considered to be someone who destroys civilians. That’s why I told them that I wanted to protect civilians from the actions of war criminals,” the interlocutor told Donetsk journalists.
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