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  • 2017-12-18 (xsd:date)
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  • as claimed in some of the Russian versions of the events. These claims had been debunked by the Joint Investigative Team with representatives from Australia (en)
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  • On December 7, TV Zvezda, the official channel of the Russian Ministry of Defense, aired an interview with Yuri Baturin, a man who claimed to be a commander of an air-defense unit in the Ukrainian army. The independent Russian news site Meduza reported on the interview, noting that Zvezda later removed its stories based on Baturin’s claims.In his TV interview, Baturin claims that on July 17, 2014 [the day MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine] he was commanding his unit near the western city of Kharkiv, and that he personally witnessed MH17 disappear from a radar screen.A piece of the Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 near Hrabove in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 26, 2014.Baturin said that a few days later, a convoy vehicles stopped by his post, and that he learned from some of the convoy’s personnel that Ukrainian forces had deployed a Buk" surface-to-air missile system [the same system that was determined to have shot down MH17] to the village of Zaroshchenskoye (en)
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