U.S. Intelligence: Separatists, Not Russians, Killed MH17

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Moscow has been lying about what happened to the airliner but one thing it is saying may actually be true: It wasn’t a Russian who pulled the trigger.

Published Jul. 22 2014 7:05PM EDT

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The U.S. intelligence community’s best guess is that Ukrainian separatists supported by Russia, but not actual Russians, were the ones who fired the missile that brought down MH17 and killed 296 people over eastern Ukraine.

If the leading theory of America’s intelligence agencies is true, then separatists have demonstrated a level...

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U.S. Intelligence: Separatists, Not Russians, Killed MH17

Moscow has been lying about what happened to the airliner but one thing it is saying may actually be true: It wasn’t a Russian who pulled the trigger.

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