Pro-Russian Rebel Leader Claims Malaysian Airlines Passengers "Were Dead Before it Crashed"

DONETSK, Ukraine – Bragging on social media about his fighters downing what they thought to be a Ukrainian military transport plane, the self-appointed separatist commander declared: “We did warn you – do not fly in our sky.”



A day later, after it had become clear that the aircraft was not a cargo jet transporting government troops but a Boeing 777 carrying 298 passengers, Igor Strelkov claimed in a weird statement that “not all the people on the plane were dead before it crashed,” insinuating that some were.

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In a bizarre post on VK.com, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, Strelkov asserted that corpses strewn about the crash scene in the rural eastern Ukrainian village of Grabovo were “bloodless” and insinuated that Kiev may have deliberately shot the plane down as part of some sinister plan.



Strelkov claimed that he had spoken to "two people who personally collected the bodies immediately after the crash" and that they had “stressed that many corpses were ‘entirely bloodless’ – as if their blood had clotted long before the accident.” Read more...

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