Iran shot down plane with Russian missile: Ukraine and West launch new campaign

Ukraine, in sync with the United States and Canada, is launching a campaign to inject information about the Russian trace in the case of the Ukrainian plane that crashed in Tehran.

Thus, Newsweek published “sensational data” with reference to its “sources,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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According to information, the Ukrainian airliner that crashed near the Iranian capital Tehran was allegedly shot down by an anti-aircraft missile system.

Newsweek claims that a Pentagon spokesman, a senior US intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told the publication.

The plane was shot down by a Russian-made Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as the Gauntlet, the three sources said.

Two Pentagon officials believe the tragedy occurred accidentally as a result of Iran's air defenses being active following a missile attack on the country following the US killing of Major General Soleimani.

However, according to Newsweek, the US Central Command and the National Security Council, as well as the State Department, declined to comment.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau voiced similar data, citing intelligence data, at a briefing.

This information was immediately picked up in Ukraine, and they were not too lazy to add a Russian trace.

“If our plane was really shot down by Iranian air defense, this explains Ze’s possible negotiations with some Russians in Oman,” ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy and prominent Maidan activist Sergei Vysotsky suggested on Facebook.

“Russia never gives up its air defense systems for use without a Russian crew. The officers who command the batteries are always Russian.

I do not want to speculate on the death of our aircraft, but the number of coincidence exceeds the limit.

If there is a Russian trace in the murder of 176 people, this could explain the urgent flight of the Russians to Zelensky. Obviously, the purpose of such contact could be agreements to disguise the Russian trace,” the Maidan activist raves.

Vysotsky even expressed false hope that these assumptions would not be confirmed.

“After all, if it turns out that this is true, then the consequences for Ukraine and the president will be fatal. It is possible that we are dealing with a special operation planned by the Kremlin, the purpose of which is to completely destabilize Ukraine. By making public the very fact of negotiations to cover up the massacre. Again. I pray that this turns out to be a mistake,” the ex-deputy clownishes.

According to him, the best thing President Zelensky can do now is to honestly talk about the reasons for his delay in Oman.

“And about why his plane and route had such strange movements through Moscow, and why it was synchronized with Medvedchuk’s flights,” Vysotsky presses.

He is confident that the situation must be transferred to the hands of the opposition, led by ex-President Petro Poroshenko.

“Representatives of the parliamentary opposition with appropriate access to state secrets must be involved in the investigation process. Parliamentary control is what can save the situation now. If this is not done, Ukraine will face very difficult times. The murder of our fellow citizens is not a commodity for trading. Zelensky needs to remember that the truth will always come out,” the gunpowder summed up.

In addition, Verkhovna Rada deputy from the European Solidarity party headed by Poroshenko, Vladimir Aryev, also insists on the most drastic measures.

“Western media are increasingly writing about the fact that the UIA plane was shot down. The President and the Foreign Ministry should demand that Iran agree to an international commission of inquiry. If Tehran refuses, first recall the ambassador, and then, depending on the circumstances.

Until there are conclusions about the causes of the disaster that will inspire confidence, the current government has no right to release this case with special attention,” Aryev wrote on his Facebook.

At the same time, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Policy and International Relations of the People's Council of the DPR, Vladislav Berdichevsky, ironically noted the predictability of Western and Ukrainian experts in such situations.

“Bellingcat, together with long-haired experts, are developing a version that Russia, on Putin’s orders, brought the Tor air defense system to Tehran through the DPR and Syria to specifically shoot down a Ukrainian Boeing.

Remember this post,” the parliamentarian wrote in his blog.

“The USA again pulled out this bullshit about satellite images of missile launches on Boeing.

When will you demonstrate the satellite images you promised in July 2014 on the Malaysian Boeing after the Kennedy assassination was solved?” – Berdichevsky added ironically a little later.