Kremlin-backed insurgents now claim Malaysia Airlines plane was carrying corpses

July 18, 2014

Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has disappeared from the radars above the war zone in eastern Ukraine at 4:20 p.m., all the 298 passengers including 15 crew members reported dead.

Rescuers recover 181 bodies from crash site. After the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane crashed on July 17 in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast with 298 people on board, Kremlin-backed enthusiastically claimed credit, saying they thought they had shot down another Ukrainian military transport plane. “We did warn you - do not fly in our sky,” Kremlin-backed separatist leader Igor Girkin, a Russian intelligence service officer, wrote on his official Vkontakte soon According to Girkin, the plane’s passengers were already dead when the plane went down.

“I just talked to two people who were gathering corpses, both from Shakhtarsk (the city where the plane crashed) so they came to the spot only 30 minutes after the tragedy.

I am writing from their words.

They said "many corpses were totally bloodless and looked like blood had clotted long before the catastrophe,” the leader of Russian backed insurgents wrote.

Сiting the same locals, Girkin also said" a strong putrid smell was noticed in the area of the plane crash".

“This smell could NOT have appeared in 30 minutes in any weather, and it was cloudy, not very hot yesterday,” he wrote. According to the terrorist leader there was a special medical cargo on board.

In the same statement Girkin-Strelkov admitted plane pilots were alive and did die as a result of the crash. “The cabin, and its front is in a good condition, is literally spilled with their blood all over,” he wrote.

Meanwhile Girkin’s posts claiming the credit for shooting down a Ukrainian AN-26 military transport plane were deleted and his official group on Vkontakte started backpedaling, stating that information was not confirmed and was just reposted from another source.

“The plane has just been taken down somewhere around Torez (Donetsk Oblast). It lays there behind the Progress mine,” Girkin’s statement from July 17 read. His comrade, Pavel Gubarev, self-proclaimed governor of Donetsk Oblast, also reported the plane crash. “Just shot down the plane somewhere around Snezhnoe,” he wrote on his Vkontakte page, also some 20 minutes after the plane fell down.